Re: maildir vs mbox

2002-06-10 Thread David Champion
* On 2002.06.08, in <20020608212345.GB4832@sumida>, * "Kevin Coyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to start a religious war, but is there consensus opinion > as to whether mbox or Maildir is better? I know mutt supports both > automatically, so it's probably a bit of a mute q

Re: maildir vs mbox

2002-06-09 Thread Peter T. Abplanalp
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:23:45PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I don't want to start a religious war, but is there consensus opinion > as to whether mbox or Maildir is better? I know mutt supports both > automatically, so it's probably a bit of a mute question, but mutt > also gives you the o

Re: maildir vs mbox

2002-06-09 Thread Andre Berger
--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-06-08 23:34 -0400: >=20 > I don't want to start a religious war, but is there consensus opinion > as to whether mbox or M

Re: maildir vs mbox

2002-06-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-06-08 23:23]: >I don't want to start a religious war, but is there consensus opinion >as to whether mbox or Maildir is better? I know mutt supports both >automatically, so it's probably a bit of a mute question, but mutt >also gives you the option of sp

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:03:36PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: > Note the requirement to use the hostname. Note that procmail doesn't. > Procmail is broken. Does on mine: _vz.z77T7.titanium [breser@titanium new]$ hostname titanium [breser@titanium new]$ procmail -v procmail v3.14 1999/11/22, Copyr

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Magnus Bodin« am 2001-07-15 um 21:38:49 +0200 : > I agree however, that the procmail filenames are ugly. How do real maildir filenames look like? In reality, that is - we all heard the spec :) Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (engl

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Tim Legant« am 2001-07-15 um 14:03:36 -0500 : > "Okay, so you're writing messages. A unique name has three pieces, > separated by dots. On the left is the result of time(). On the right is > the result of gethostname(). In the middle is something that doesn't > repeat within one

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:03:36PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:31:44PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: > > > Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs. > > > If procmail correctly foll

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Tim Legant
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:31:44PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: > > Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs. > > If procmail correctly followed the specification for maildirs, > > duplicates would be impossi

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: > > > > 995153880.17759_1.teich > > 995153880.17760_1.teich > > 995153880.17761_1.teich > > > > Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs. > If procmail correctly followed the specification for maildirs

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-14 Thread Tim Legant
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:42:03AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > So sprach »Walt Mankowski« am 2001-07-13 um 19:04:43 -0400 : > > Maildirs have some neat advantages of their own. For example it's > > very easy to merge two folders together. I send mail from my laptop, > > Hmm, dunno, but I f

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Gushue
Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 15 May 2000: > > How much > > of a speed difference would there be between that and mbox? > > I think this is really rather subjective and per-system issue, whatever > figures someone else might come up wit

Re: Maildir vs mbox (was Re: Maildir support in Procmail 3.14 -- how?)

2000-05-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 15 May 2000: > How much > of a speed difference would there be between that and mbox? I think this is really rather subjective and per-system issue, whatever figures someone else might come up with on their system might be totally off the mark on you