Are there any other advantages with this setup?
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:28:07PM -0600, Charles Cazabon muttered:
| Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > don't you find the file structure of this just horrid though?
| >
| > To have new/ tmp/ cur/ for every mailing list? I would like to and would
| > perfer to use maildir for the mailing lists, I don't know why...
| >
| > What are the advantages to this...
|
| Maildirs are safe for multiple concurrent writers and readers simultaneously,
| with no file locking, even over NFS -- so you can't corrupt a Maildir by
| having it open for writing by your MUA and the MDA which tries to stick a
| new message in it, etc. Not needing file locks is also good for
| performance on busy maildirs.
|
| Charles
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