From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 1 05:18:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11724 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 05:18:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [199.84.54.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA11714 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 05:18:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evanc@synapse.net) Received: (qmail 11063 invoked from network); 1 Mar 1998 13:18:41 -0000 Received: from cpu1970.adsl.bellglobal.com (HELO cello) (206.47.37.201) by conductor.synapse.net with SMTP; 1 Mar 1998 13:18:41 -0000 Message-ID: <001d01bd4514$97b25070$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> From: "Evan Champion" To: "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" Cc: , , Subject: Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 08:18:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >What exactly is "maildirs" ? Is it a form of dot locking ? Does >procmail supports it ? I've recently changed my local mail deliverer >to procmail. And do not feel tempted to change smtpd/sendmail/procmail >for qmail in the near future. A maildir is a mailbox structure that does not require _any_ locking (including dot locking). AFAIK, qmail is the only MTA that can write to a maildir. See for more info. Evan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message