On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:05:15 -0500
Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote:

...

> Another benefit of maildir is if you use a backup program that does file
> pooling (like BackupPC).  Anytime an mbox changes, that's a new file to
> backup (and usually a big one).  With maildir, only the new messages
> have to be backed up.

But note that rsync based backup solutions do differential file backup,
so only the changed / added portion of the mbox has to be copied and
then merged, which mitigates this problem.

Celejar
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