Jason, et al --
...and then Jason Helfman said...
% A friend of mine at work made a great suggestion to me, and I think I am
% finding it actually a good idea. Along his lines of thinking, I am using
Great! We love those :-)
% Qmail. I really enjoy it, and find it not hard to install after the
% first couple of installs. I have it working lovley in cooperation with
% Fetchmail and Procmail. He suggested not to have each directory in
Good deal. I don't have to manage any of the installations, but we've
been happy with qmail here on my server, too.
% MAILDIR format, because it just makes the directory structure for your
Yeah; I would agree with that.
% mailboxes the pits. And it's not really important mail that is coming in
% to those boxes, just mailing lists for kernel, or bugs, or say mutt. And
% those are available online any way for the most part. I tend to agree
% with that philosophy.
Personally, I just don't use maildir because I'm happy with mbox; it
certainly has nothing to do with me surfing for info elsewhere.
%
% So those mails are coming in via mbox, and anything that passes through
% all the filters, comes to the last filter and gets passed to a default
% of MAILDIR format. My spool.
Hokay. Any particular reason, or do you just want to have a maildir so
that you can say you do?
%
% My question is this. First. What do you think of this reasoning? Second.
% I am wondering if I could use Rolands patch for compression just on my
% "backup-inbox" since that is in mbox format, or what I am thinking is,
Using anything other than your MDA's locking on a box receiving incoming
mail is generally a bad idea, and that would also go for this box. Sure,
you can *read* the mailbox just fine, but delivering to it is unsafe
unless you also want to write the wrappers to handle locking and then
ensure that delivery *only* happens through your wrappers. Just pumping
the incoming mail mail through gzip and appending it to the mailbox is a
disaster waiting to happen.
% convert that to the MAILDIR structure and just sending it to a cronjob
% to gzip it up. I don't know if Roland's patch supports MAILDIR though?
maildir wouldn't take too well to gzipping because of the great number of
small messages, but I should think that it would be happy first being
tarred and *then* zipped, and I see no reason the new functionality
couldn't be expanded to support that (at least .tar.gz, but maybe even
.tar and .gz and nesting; I haven't tried either).
%
% On a side note, does anyone like the Little Big Brothers Database? What
% do you like about it? What don't you like about it? Would you suggest
% checking it out?
I'd suggest checking it out based on hearsay alone; I plan to get around
to it one of these days but haven't yet.
%
% Thanks
HTH & HAND
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