* Thomas Hurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011127 15:43]: > * Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > So the advantage of Maildir is speed, and the disadvantage is that > > it eats inodes for breakfast?
This is my experience, yes. Another advantage is peace of mind that you'll never again fall prey to a corrupted mailbox due to a delivery occurring at the wrong time. (And according to Murphy, it will happen to you, too, and probably right when she emails you her phone number.) The other thing, which it seems is often overlooked and underappreciated, is the ability to use nice things like grep, find, xargs and the like on your mail the way it oughta work. > I do tend to leave deleting/archiving mail until I absolutely can't > stand waiting for the client to load folders any more, though, so maybe > that mainly applies to very large mailboxes. I've killed three MUA's > doing that so far :) Well, I certainly don't mean to tell you how to live your life, but here's how I do mine: set mbox_type=Maildir set record="+archive/sent-mail/`date +%Y/%m-sent-mail-%Y'`" set mbox="+archive/inbox/`date '+%Y/%m-inbox-%Y'`" set move This allows me to be lazy *and* keeps everything fast as lightning. I can still get to my last month's worth of incoming or outgoing mail with a quick "c<" or "c>". Older stuff is there, too, all neatly sorted and requiring no attention by me. good times, Vineet -- Satan laughs when # "I disapprove of what you say, but I will we kill each other. # defend to the death your right to say it." Peace is the only way. # --Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire, 1906
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