"Chad W. Skinner" wrote:
> that the "mbx" format is better than the default "Unix Spool" format. I am
> trying to find answers to the following questions, but if there are sources
> I could read let me know as well.
Maildir is better than that. Safe over NFS and fast access are its
benefits.
> Does anyone know what format the system uses when it moves the files out of
> the spool and into the users home directory and is mbx superior in terms of
> speed?
That depends on what you use. qmail and postfix (both faster and
probably more secure than sendmail) both support Maildir format. IMAP
and pine use UNIX spool by default, but you can change that by
recompiling ;)
> One article mentions the mbx format uses binary data in the file, does this
> pose problems restoring corrupted files or is it easy to restore the files
> if something screws up?
I don't know. Sorry.
> The first article above changes the home directory of the users mail to
> avoid using NFS with mbx, anyone with more, well any, experience with NFS
> and imap have any clues as to why you want to avoid nfs in this setup?
Because file locking usually doesn't work over NFS. If a user is moving
messages about in their mailboxes using IMAP while mail is being
delivered, then bad things happen. Maildir is safe because each message
is contained in a file by itself. There shouldn't be any circumstances
under which two applications write to the same file. Ever.
> Lastly from what I have read UW imapd does not support shared or public
> shares, is this correct?
Don't know. Check courier-imap. It's a lot smaller, and faster than
UW-IMAP. Its built for Maildirs, and is generally more correct than
UW-IMAP.
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