On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 02:07:46PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Paul E Condon: > > > > I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter > > form mbox files being updated almost daily. > > What kind of clutter? If you are doing incremental backups (in the form > of diffs to previous versions) mbox should be alright.
I use 'cp -au --backup=numbered /home /<backup location>' to make daily backup. With this, only new versions of files are copied to the backup each day. I can use ls to examine the history of updates of each file in <backup location>. But for active email correspondents, the whole collection of old emails is copied six or seven times per week. I can live with the waste of disk space, but I would like to see the time-stamp on individual messages from 'ls -l'. > > A good comparison between both formats is here: > <http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Maildir>. Thanks. > > > [...] Where can I find a recent HOWTO that adresses Debian issues, if > > it is not bad? > > What you need to do heavily depends on your mail setup. What you need to > do in mutt is described in the link above. If you are using procmail to > sort mails into the right mailbox, you generally only need to append > slashes to the mailbox names. E.g: > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR > > :0 > * ^List-Id: <debian-user.lists.debian.org> > .debian.user/ > > In this case, you don't need to touch Exim's configuration at all. > > J. > -- > I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble > comprehending a nuclear apocalypse. > [Agree] [Disagree] > <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html> -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
