On Aug 27, Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please forgive someone new to debian -- the benefits of moving to Maildir >format for NFS-based systems seems obvious, if it removes lock-contention >problems. However, wouldn't that mean mutt would be the only mailreader >supplied with Debian? This would be fine with me, since I rather enjoy mutt, I'n not sure about the level of maildir support of other MTAs. I'm the mutt maintainer. :-)
>(And how would procmail handle? Do exim, qmail, sendmail all support Maildir >format?) Procmail supports maildirs. exim, I don't know. qmail is the reference implementation and sendmail and postfix can use procmail. >It seems that the hassle might not be worth it? In the default-static Maybe. But even without pushing maildirs as the default I think ~/Mailbox would be a good goal too, because of the security benefits (no more sgid MUAs). -- ciao, Marco
