> > Does that means MBX would be considered/supported? > > It looks like mbx is only supported by the UW IMAP server.
[...] > 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. Fair enough. Maildir will do, since today's clients can read it as well. Also, as Cory pointed out, the planned abstraction layer "will allow others to write mbox and MBX compatible queue backends." Below two interesting benchmarks on mailboxes formats: http://www.decisionsoft.com/pdw/mailbench.html http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ Cheers, -- David Collantes - College of Business Administration, UCF - (407)823-3418 _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
