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Chris Telting wrote:
> I am confused as to a number of things so I'd appreciate being 
> straighted out.  I keep searching the web and looking at documentation 
> but I'm getting more confused.
> 
> Sendmail stores mail in mbox format.  I'm not sure if it allows other 
> storage formats such as maildir or berkeley-db.  And if so how it's 
> enabled.

It does through additional local mailers, such as Cyrus.



> Cyrus-IMAP unless I'm mistaken by default looks for mail in the 
> derkeley-db file format.  I'm not sure if it also supports mbox and if 
> so how to configure that.

No, it does not support mbox.

  bye
	av.