From: "Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:33:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F49BE7328A1DA246AFC5C2CDDB86D9170D47F1@BCV0X134EXC0005> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430C7D7A.50502@gmx.ch>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Gysin [mailto:cgysin@gmx.ch]
> Sent: 24 August 2005 15:00
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???
>
>
> Jarry wrote:
> > I'm using sendmail as my mail-server, and I noticed, that mail for
> > users is stored in $HOME/.maildir, not in /var/spool/mail.
> > And each mail is stored as separate file, not all in one file.
> > WHY???
>
> It's called the "maildir" mail storage format. I find it very
> useful, especially
> with big mailboxes...
[snip]
> You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If
> you *really* want to
> use mbox...
Could you please share any other benefits/disbenefits of the two
formats?
--
Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-24 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-24 13:43 [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? Jarry
2005-08-24 14:00 ` Christoph Gysin
2005-08-24 14:28 ` Jarry
2005-08-24 14:44 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-24 15:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-24 18:39 ` Jarry
2005-08-29 18:42 ` [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.) Jarry
2005-08-29 20:19 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-30 6:40 ` Jarry
2005-08-30 12:46 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-30 13:16 ` Jarry
2005-08-30 15:56 ` Ron Bickers
2005-08-29 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-29 22:05 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2005-08-30 16:26 ` Willie Wong
2005-08-31 2:48 ` Walter Dnes
2005-08-24 14:33 ` Michael Kintzios [this message]
2005-08-24 14:49 ` [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? Christoph Gysin
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