Q: Mailbox format

[William Park]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:58:33PM -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Few months ago in one TLUG meeting we talked about IMAP server & the
> mailbox format it used. Part of it was about how maildir format is much 
> better than single file as a mailbox.
> 
> Well, in 1999 Mark Crispin wrote an article about mailbox format, and he 
> wrote why maildir (file per message) format is not a good idea. Is his 
> reasoning not correct or not applicable anymore?
> 
> http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/formats.txt.html

No problem with 'mbox' on all my Slackware machines.  Except that, if
your mailbox is around 200MB, 'popa3d' will refuse to authenticate.  :-)

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