Ned Slider wrote: >> > > Ah, yes indeed. Thanks for the clarification - that completely passed me > over when I set up my system. > > Any thoughts on mbox vs maildir and pop vs imap. Is there accepted best > practice or is this something best left to the individual users > discretion after reading up for themselves on the individual merits of > each? > I personally use maildir / imap. I don't know if this would happen with mbox as well, but one of the downsides to maildir is that you end up with a ton of tiny files making tar performance dismal if you decide to make a tar archive. I don't remember why I chose maildir when I did, that was eons ago. But I do remember I had a reason. The default was mbox and I changed it. It may have been performance related, but I don't remember. As far as why I use imap to access my mail - that's a no brainer, it lets me easily access it from almost any machine running almost any client.
