On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or, better, you might consider using popmaildir and new Maildir/ > format for your mail box. It's much safer. > > I don't like maildir! Too many files hanging around. Too much wasted > space.
Imagine you have a 10 gig mbox file. You delete a few 4kb emails. How this space is going to be reclaimed? With maildir, it's a trivial problem. > My current INBOX holds about 400 Messages, my log reception boxes > hold between 1000 and 3000 messages (One message every 4 hours or so). Mine is about 50000 messages. Your point? > And why is Maildir safer? Locking works perfect, I never had any trouble > with this. Locking over NFS is problematic. Maildir does not need any locking whatsoever, it only needs atomic renames IIRC. > I think reformail should definitely accept both line terminations or you > are not able to use reformail easily on a standard MBOX type sytem. I agree. Someone needs to create a patch. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
