Hi, * Thomas Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-12-03 00:09]: >Deliver mail as normal to Maildir's. Every night, scan each maildir and >move anything older than (say) a week to a datestamped and compressed >mbox. Maildir is a good choice for the working mailspools because >it's robust and has constant-time behaviour when it comes to removing >messages from the start of the spool. Mboxes are good for the archives >themselves because they compress more readily and take up minimal space >while being quite fast, and are pretty much constant time for appending >messages. > >Anyone have different views on this? Or have a working system they'd >like to share? I have different views on Maildirs (see other thread), and I would move the mails thread-wise, but on all other points, I agree.
I have no solution, but will work on one based on Mail::Audit. Thorsten -- Question Authority!