Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:34:40 -0500 From: "Blake Crosby" <dev@samurai.com> To: "Ahsan Ali" <ahsan@khi.comsats.net.pk>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: antivirus, webmail and virtual domain hosting on a mail server Message-ID: <JAEEIJKIHAONENKPFCCPAEJDCBAA.dev@samurai.com> In-Reply-To: <006201c17829$29f79c10$0100a8c0@ahsanalikh>
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Mbox stores all of the mail in one single file (doesn't really matter where that file is) Maildir stores all of the mail in induvidual files, inside directories: ls -al Maildir: drwx------ 2 bcrosby wheel 66560 Nov 28 11:06 cur drwx------ 2 bcrosby wheel 512 Nov 28 11:06 new drwx------ 2 bcrosby wheel 512 Nov 28 11:27 tmp new mail is stored in new, read mail is stored in cur and tmp is for, well, I'm not quite sure. ls -al cur: -rw------- 1 bcrosby wheel 806 Sep 1 20:00 999388732.22875_1.infiniteloop.ca:2,S -rw------- 1 bcrosby wheel 612 Sep 1 23:02 999399767.23537_0.infiniteloop.ca:2,RS There is some debate as to which is more efficient, Maildir drastically reduces file locking issues (escpecially if you are using NFS). Blake > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ahsan Ali > Sent: November 28, 2001 11:25 AM > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: antivirus, webmail and virtual domain hosting on a mail > server > > > I cant resist asking this here - whats the basic difference > between maildir > and mbox? I'm assuming /var/spool/mail/username is mbox... so how does > maildir work? > > I know, I'm going to RTFM in depth tonight! :) > > Thanks! > > -Ahsan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Blake Crosby" <dev@samurai.com> > To: "Ahsan Ali" <ahsan@khi.comsats.net.pk>; <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:15 PM > Subject: RE: antivirus, webmail and virtual domain hosting on a > mail server > > > > > > > As for your pop/imap daemon, either the courier suite (includes a > webmail > > > app) which uses maildir to store mail, or qpopper (maildir, by > qualcomm). > > > > > > > whoops, that should be "qpopper (mbox, by qualcomm)." > > > > Blake > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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