Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:28:57 -0700 From: "Jaye Mathisen" <mrcpu@internetcds.com> To: <scanner@jurai.net>, "Patrick" <patrick@eahd.or.ug> Cc: "Daniel Harris" <dannyboy@worksforfood.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: postfix && Maildir Message-ID: <00e901c0f460$9ea89520$6844a33f@sexxee> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106131155110.66796-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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I would disagree with this. I have huge mailboxes of maildir's working fine from various mailing lists. If your search methodology consists of just grep and find, then yes, it's not as handy, but if you use some of the other tools out there, like glimpse and stuff, it's fine. Since the postfix people have a vested interest in competing with qmail and such, I can't imagine them saying anything too positive. I suspect that overall it's purely a religious issue, with good and bad points to both sides. For our (and my) purposes, in conjunction with IMAP and reading the same folder from several different machines, (work, home, laptop, etc), maildir works just fine, and offers numerous advantages over single mbox-style mailboxes (especially with NFS involved). YMMV. ----- Original Message ----- From: <scanner@jurai.net> To: "Patrick" <patrick@eahd.or.ug> Cc: "Daniel Harris" <dannyboy@worksforfood.com>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:58 AM Subject: Re: postfix && Maildir > > > >And understand the negatives of using the Maildir format? > > > > No. Could you please point me to some documentation on that? > > Go look through the postfix mail list archives at www.postfix.org for > Maildir. Basically what it boils down to is if you have very little mail > Maildir is just as good as mail box format. But the more mail you have the > suckier Maildir performs. It's *alot* easier to deal with one large file > then a directory with tons of smaller files. Especially for searching. So > basically if you never go above a handfull of mail it won't matter to > much. But the more you throw at Maildir the worse it gets. > > ============================================================================ = > -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | Sr. Unix Administrator > Work: chris.watson@twa.com | Trans World Airlines, Kansas City, MO > Home: scanner@jurai.net | http://www.twa.com > ============================================================================ = > WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" > LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" > ============================================================================ = > irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! > ICQ: 20016186 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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