On 10/9/2008 12:08 PM, CJ Keist wrote: > Charles, > It's to do with how our current file services are setup and a > personal preference and familiarity with the mbox format. Right now > other than users inboxes, all mail folders are stored in the users home > directory on central file server which the mail server mounts via NFS. > Maildir is a big change from mbox and would give a confusing view to > users that decided to look into their Maildir folder. I don't even want > to think about what they might try mucking around with in there ;). > mbox format is just cleaner and users can easily see that these are the > same folders they see on their mail client.
<shudder> I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if my users' mail was directly accessible by the users... ;) > But if I ever get the money to add enough local disk storage on our > mail server and can move all users mail folders to the mail server, is > when I would probably think about switching over to the Maildir format. > This way the users only way to access their Maildir folder would be > through a mail client. I feel your pain... -- Best regards, Charles
