* Chris Hilts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Are there any opinions on mbox vs. maildir? I'm told by several friends > that maildir is probably the more efficient way to go, but my Debian system > came with mbox by default, and I'm not sure how easy/wise it would be to > change.
The problem with mbox is that your MUA is deleting chunks of the file while your MTA is appending to it. Obviously, this is not a good way of doing things. With waildir, each message is a separate file, so that problem doesn't exist. As for efficiency, it'll probably take less time to process one huge mbox file, then to process a directory tree with zillion small files. So mbox may be faster. Maildir is supposed to be safer, but if you don't run buggy MUA/MTA with nfs-mounted /var/mail, mbox will work just fine (in fact, my mbox is nfs-mounted and locking is *disabled*, and I haven't lost any mail yet. Well, none that I know of, anyway.) The other advantage of maildir is permissions on mboxes in /var/mail: they need to be group-writable by whatever GID your MTA runs as. Dima -- I'm going to exit now since you don't want me to replace the printcap. If you change your mind later, run -- magicfilter config script
