From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7wfL-0004ay-CE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:55:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OEqwFg012669; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:52:58 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OEkbUp014282 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:46:38 GMT Received: (qmail 53044 invoked by uid 0); 24 Aug 2005 14:47:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 24 Aug 2005 14:47:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:44:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? In-Reply-To: <430C83F8.1090508@gmx.net> Message-ID: References: <430C7996.6070209@gmx.net> <430C7D7A.50502@gmx.ch> <430C83F8.1090508@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: e71ad6a8-bc5c-4d59-9849-91b1d1fe3ea4 X-Archives-Hash: 63f7390a893aa58b29b0f2860fb20220 On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: > Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail. > On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home > (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files. > Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that mail is actually > in /home too... There have been many discussions for years about how maildir is superior to mbox format... Im sure Google will help you find them. > Not for me, but for my users. Now I have to go through each mailreader > and find out how to force it reading mails from .maildir There is probably a global config file for most mailers. > BTW, if some users do not have $HOME, where their .maildir will be??? Not all email systems use /var/mail or $HOME, qmail+vpopmail stores email for everyone under /home/vpopmail/domains for example. > > You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If you *really* > > want to use mbox... > > That seem to me to be much easier. First I will find some info about it, > but if there is no substantial advantage in using maildirs instead of > /var/sool/mail, I will switch to the "old" mail storage system... We had all sorts of performance problems with mbox format - it is not scaleable, bigger mboxes produce huge loads on the server. I should also mention that maildir is inherently safer over NFS than mbox. Its clear from your posting that you have yet to experience the problems that have caused a lot of server administrators to abandon mbox format. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list