On Fri, Aug 27, 1999, Thomas Roessler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
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| > Personally, I've never found any good reason to use anything other
| > than mbox style boxes. They are also easier to do "external"
| > things with (like grep'ing the contents, etc), and seem to have
| > fewer problems with "new mail" notification/indication.
|
| Well, maildir folders are preferrable in environments where mail
| drops are shared via NFS.
|
| (Note that not only locking is an issue here, but getting up-to-date
| file contents when synching folders can be problematic as well.)
Good point. It's been awhile since I had to put up with a mail spool
that was NFS/etc mounted.
/kim
