On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:08, Kirk Ismay wrote: > With mbox, the whole file will get backed up with every incremental backup > if it is changed. If you have clients using IMAP or don't check their email > often, you wind up with lots of big files. With spam and viruses arriving > all the time, most mailboxes are getting changed daily.
Also there's the issue of what happens if a file is being updated while the backup is in progress. With Maildir the worst that can happen is to have a message truncated, with mbox you can have the entire user's mail spool be mangled. -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the >From field.
