Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > You could do a lot of what imap offers just by standardising the MUA > backends to maildir, but everybody talks about the UI and forgets the > backend part (in fact it's quite surprising we managed to get good imap > servers out since we insist on using last century's tech with mbox and > sendmail as our defaults) Maildir solves one problem with mbox (deleting an arbitrary message) while making a whole bunch of new ones (the biggest being a directory with 10,000 files is not good). Dovecot's mbox+index seems to work pretty well in my experience. I find it funny that at the same time NNTP servers were moving away from a one-file-per-message storage format due to the many problems, Maildir (and its variants) was trying to move towards that format. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
