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| Subject: | Re: Maildir |
| Group: | Postfix-users |
| From: | M. Tolga Özses |
| Date: | 14 Jun 2007 |
mouss wrote:
> Tolga wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to ask you. What advantages does Maildir have over mbox or
>> vice versa?
>
>
> google will give you few documents.
>
> I prefer maildir :
>
> - no lock issues. with mbox, a process that needs to access the mbox
> must lock it so that it is not modified. This may be forgotten if you
> archive mail with a script or a program that doesn't care of this
> - I don't like a file that keeps growing (I am assuming imap here, but
> this also applies to pop when users "keep a copy on the server")
> - when users move messages from a folder to another, with maildir this
> is moving a file. with mbox, files need to be rewritten
> - mbox uses "From ..." as a separator. This causes problems when you
> have a mail with a line starting with "From ". This is why you often
> see such lines converted to ">From ...", but this is ugly (a long time
> ago, I spent hours trying to figure out why a latex document had a
> funny character... until I checked and found that it was because the
> document was exchanged multiple times via email, and each time, the
> line was modified....).
>
>
> of course, having to open a lotf of files is slower than opening just
> one file. so when the file doesn't get modified (moving messages...)
> often, mbox is faster. but I really don't care...
>
>
Thanks for the explanation :)
--
Stay with *nix :)
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