[GLLUG] mbox or maildir

[Jason Folkens]

the one good thing that came from qmail is maildir

...  and i think thats about it.

maildir works well because if you have multiple MTA's delivering to the same 
mailbox, you won't get a corrupted inbox.   the same is not true for mbox... 
Since mbox is one contiguous file, if two apps write to the same file, you 
either get a dirty write, or a corrupted file...   Neither of which are 
desireable

plus, certain good mail apps only use maildir (like courier imap etc...) 
I'm not sure wether or not dovecot supports mbox, but I doubt it.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide at gmail.com>
To: "Linux User" <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:28 PM
Subject: [GLLUG] mbox or maildir


> I'm setting up a mail server for (want to learn) myself and I'm
> wondering whether I should go with maildir or mbox, what are people's
> opinions?
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