On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:33:52AM +0100, Sam Clegg wrote: >On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:39:00AM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: >> >> Seems to be easy enough, indeed. Till now, I've been reluctant to use >> Maildir because of disk-space issues (Maildir is a great inode eater!), >> and because my whole mail system (mutt, postfix, procmail) is configured >> for mbox (and I have a lot of these folders). > >Its worth it. > >offlineimap works so well its worth switching to Maildirs. > >You don't need to change to Maildir on the server (which is where >you run postfix and procmail I assume). But if you do change on >the server then .procmailrc changes are trivial.
Seconded - offlineimap is wonderful. And it has the added bonus that it's _not_ written in C or C++ so it doesn't use the horrible libc-client code that many C/C++ mail-handling programs so. I have changed to Maildir on the server too, which means that all 3 of my machines (workstation, laptop, server) see a consistent view of mail, even down to using the same .muttrc for all three. This is _really_ useful. The only down-side of using Maildir is grepping through mailboxes to find information is much more awkward. Perhaps it's time to run glimpse or similar... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's actually quite entertaining to watch ag129 prop his foot up on the desk so he can get a better aim." [ seen in ucam.chat ]
