On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:59:27PM -0400, Aaron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > No relation to the P.O. box chain :p > > > > I wonder what most people use to organize their local mail these days? I > > don't run a full-on MTA, I rely on fetchmail and procmail for the > > delivery of my messages, and they are stored (by default) in mbox > > format. > > > > Are there any comparative guides out there? What are the benefits of > > procmail/postfix/qmail/sendmail/fetchmail/etc.? The issue of mail in > > Linux is very complicated. What is the most efficient format for storing > > local mail? mbox, Maildir, postfix+mySQL, printed in hex to a > > lineprinter, read by Festival into an auto-loading cassette deck?
Line printer? Jeez, it's been 12 years since I've seen a line printer. Makes me all misty-eyed and nostalgic thinking about debugging VAX BASIC & VS COBOL programs on green-bar printouts. > > I'm finding mbox to be very SLOW with many messages (understandably), > > but the process of switching to Maildir is complex enough that I want to > > be sure I'm making the right choice. > > maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access > messages as individual files, and more robust. Plus 'From' doesn't need > to be escaped at start of line. Why better performance? If there's lots of messages, directory manipulation becomes very slow (at least on IDE drive). > Conversion: Use mutt. Set default mailbox type to maildir. Move your > old mailbox directory from, say, "Mail" to "Mail-old". Tag all messages > in a mailbox and move 'em to the new mailbox -- it'll be created > automatically. Newer versions of Evo let you store each sub-folder in mbox, mh or maildir. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Our computers and their computers are the same color. The conversion should be no problem!" Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
