On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:26:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:39PM -0500, dman wrote:
| >
| > BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where
| > did that come from?
|
| Maildir is an alternative method of storing mail invented by djb and
| first supportd by qmail;
Oh, that explains it (after the djbdns discussion). He couldn't just
put the folders in ~/Mail !?
| procmail, maildrop, exim, postfix and several other packages know
| about it. Mutt supports it well; pine supports it with a patch;
| several emacs-based mailers know it. Lots of mail-related software
| can use it.
|
| Maildir stores each message in exactly one file; it guarantees not to
| lose mail, and does not require locking, even over NFS-mounted directories.
|
| It is fast for mail delivery and deletion; grep works for searches because
| each file is a separate message. It can be slower to load an entire folder
| than mbox because it needs to grab many files instead of just one big file.
Yeah, I use it (the storage format, that is) but I haven't seen
~/Maildir mentioned anywhere else (I guess that's a djb/qmail
incompatibility thing[1]).
-D
[1] Ok, sure folders can be stored anywhere, but ~/Mail is a
convention. No need to break that *by default*.
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