David Collantes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does that means MBX would be considered/supported?
It looks like mbx is only supported by the UW IMAP server.
I also found the following in the UW IMAP Tookit FAQ (4.5)[1]:
Some of the formats, including mbx, are only supported by the
software based on the c-client library, and are not recognized by
other mailbox programs. The "vi" editor will corrupt any mbx format
mailbox that it encounters.
Another problem is that the certain formats, including mbx, use
advanced file access and locking techniques that do not work
reliably with NFS. NFS is not a real filesystem. Use IMAP instead of
NFS for distributed access.
So in other words, mbx files aren't meant to be manipulated directly
by arbitrary programs. Someone writing an interface to an mbx format
pending queue would want to use IMAP commands. The advantage of
Maildir is that TMDA can directly manipulate the messages without
causing collisions or corruption.
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/#4.5
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