Vincent Danen wrote: > On Wed Feb 05, 2003 at 08:08:24PM +0100, Chmouel wrote:
> Alternatively, we could configure postfix out of the box to use > Maildirs instead of mboxes... Maildirs are far more reliable than > traditional mboxes anyways. People use journalling filesystems now to > prevent fs corruption, but what happens with mail corruption? If > /var/spool/mail/username is corrupt, all the mail in it is useless. At > least with Maildir, each message is it's own file; one corrupt file > doesn't corrupt the entire folder. > > Don't dismiss this out of hand just because djb invented it... =) The > only MTA I know of that doesn't support Maildir is sendmail, and I > could be wrong. postfix, qmail, exim... they all can use Maildirs. > But the default POP/IMAP server doesn't do Maildir, and 1)replacing uw with courier as the default would mean existing users would have to migrate mbox->Maildir somehow. IIRC, there are patches around for adding Maildir support it uw, which would possible make a better migration path to Maildir ... Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
