Re: maildir vs mailspool

2000-12-28 Thread Felix Natter
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > what is the difference between a local mailspool and a local maildir? Maildir is a different format for the storage of incoming mails (the "spool") that the mail-server qmail (www.qmail.org) uses. if your maildir is in ~/Maildir, then new m

Re: maildir vs mailspool

2000-12-27 Thread Henry House
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:53:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > what is the difference between a local mailspool and a local maildir? Briefly, two different methods of getting the mail from the mail transport agent (MTA, probably exim) to the mail user agent (the prog. you use to rea