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

maildir vs mailspool

2000-12-26 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! what is the difference between a local mailspool and a local maildir? TIA Marcelo