Postfix/Dovecot/Procmail/Maildir

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 00:44 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:33:25PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > I'd probably do that on a new setup with no existing users, but there
> > is no real advantage to maildir except for imap users and it will break
> > any existing programs that expect to manipulate traditional mbox format
> > directly. 
> 
> No real advantage? How about: "You're able to actually tell where a message
> stops and the next one begins without hoping someone has mangled the body
> of the message?"
> 
> It's also handy if you want to have, say, multiple copies of a mail client
> open at once and you prefer not to corrupt your mailbox.

It also means that incremental backups of the mail spool only backup the
new mail items rather than the whole mail spool. Handy for people that
have large mailboxes and like to back them up.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>