>> UW-IMAP is stable, tried and proven as well, the ONLY problem you'll >> have is what we have complained about for over 10 plus years, its >> pathetic slow speed. > > Guess you're one of the lucky ones that has never had to fix b0rked mbox > files. Consider yourself extremely lucky. It's not a lot of fun. And > it happens a lot more often than we ever liked. > >> > Definitely do not use mbox for any system that will have folders with >> > more than 100 messages or 100 MB of data. >> >> 100 messages? FFS if you are going to give advice, at least try be >> factual, I use both formats, one mbox for a cisco mailing list has over >> 42K messages in it, it loads pretty damn fast, as fast as ones with 40 >> msgs in it, but if the intention is to use NFS, then maildir is the >> only option. > > Again, you are one of the lucky ones. File your mailing list into the > inbox, and try reading new messages while the system tries delivering > messages. Pretty much guarantee you'll run into corruption. It's just > the nature of the mbox beast. For a personal system, it's fine. For a > heavily used, multi-user system, it's not so great. UW supports more than mbox. http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/formats.txt.html http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/drivers.txt.html mbx format is indexed and allows shared access. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
