From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 13:02:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E1F16A41F for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:02:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elon@zwelf.in-dsl.de) Received: from zwelf.in-dsl.de (zwelf.in-dsl.de [217.197.85.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C42F43D49 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:02:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elon@zwelf.in-dsl.de) Received: from elon by zwelf.in-dsl.de with local (Exim 4.20) id 1Dpn3k-0000kD-8G; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:01:56 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:01:56 +0200 From: Leon Messner To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050705130156.GB2695@asterix.bsdserved.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions , dick hoogendijk References: <200507042252.j64MqleE088318@unsane.co.uk> <20050705060857.GA560@pooh.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050705060857.GA560@pooh.nagual.st> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Cc: Subject: Re: Using unix mail with maildir format X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:02:04 -0000 On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:08:57AM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > What are the pro's and cons for/against both mail standards? > Won't the maildir format with all this separate mails not be more > difficult to maintain? > > I have to say that running courier/maildir never gave problems 'till now > but having the chooce I very much want some insights/advice on this > matter. Some reading points are OK too ;-) Hi, some reading points ;-) : http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?MuttFaq/Maildir This is all very pro maildir but couldn't find any pro mbox now. Also have a look at the shares maildir feature if using imap with multiple users accessing one mail dump. Greets Leon -- gnupg key ID: 9B820836 & Fingerprint: 6081 8F41 8FEC 0D69 DB98 F014 0FD4 B47D 9B82 0836