I think these two link will help you: http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/mailbox-formats.html http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
Perhaps you should do some benachmarking on your machines to compare mbox with maildir under your configuration - if you've got the resources. Tomās Núņez Lirola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 28 May 2003 12:49:03 +0200: > Looking docs, I've decided to move mail server from sendmail+qpop to > postfix+courier. And now I wonder if I should move to maildir format or stay > mbox format. I've found a lot of scripts to convert (mb2md-2 looks pretty > well), but I've not found any site explaining why should I move to maildir. > > I suppose it's easier to open a mail in a maildir than do the same on a mbox > (If the mbox is <20MB, qpop takes 80% of CPU for a while fetching it), but I > do not know advantages/inconvenients. > > Any comments about this? Any site with comments about this? Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards Dominik Schulz
