On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ond�ej Sur� wrote:
> >From libc-client4.7 documentation:
> --strip--
> The Maildir format used by qmail has all of the performance
> disadvantages of mh noted above, with the additional problem that
> the
> files are renamed in order to change their status so you end up
> having
> to rescan the directory frequently the current names
> (particularly in
> a shared mailbox scenario). It doesn't scale, and it represents
> a
> support nightmare; it will therefore never be supported in the
> official distribution. Maildir support code for c-client is
> available
> from third parties; but, if you use it, it is entirely at your
> own
> risk (read: don't complain about how poorly it performs or bugs).
> --strip--
>
> Could someone comment this?
Certainly. As the author of a Maildir IMAP server, that kicks the living
daylights out of UW-IMAP in terms of performance and resource footprint, I
can unequivocally state that there is a very tiny grain of truth in there,
but 99% of that dissertation is complete bunk.
