On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/28/06 10:14, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:59:09AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> On 10/27/06 16:25, Paul E Condon wrote: > >>>> I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is > >>>> some clutter form mbox files being updated almost daily. I > >>>> think the clutter would be reduced by switching to maildir > >>>> (true?), but I wonder about other consequences of such a > >>>> switch. In particular, when I google the topic of how to > >>>> switch, I find only people asking the question, and some > >>>> comment to the effect 'why bother?', but no answers. Is it > >>>> a bad idea for reasons which I have not yet fathomed? Where > >>>> can I find a recent HOWTO that adresses Debian issues, if > >>>> it is not bad? > > You could implement IMAP. Courier- and Doveccot both support > > Maildir. > > > > However, I'm not sure what you mean by /clutter/. Constantly > > rewriting the mbox file keeps the fs busy, and might cause file > > conflicts. OTOH, Maildir creates one (weirdly-named) file per > > mail message. That *really* clutters up your data directory!!! > > > >> Thanks for the warning. Knowing this, I think I don't really > >> want to switch. > > I don't see any problems, since I (almost) never go into my Maildir/ > to peek around. That's what my MUA (and scripting languages) is for. > > > That being said, I implemented an IMAP server, and am more than > > happy with it. > > Just now? Wow.
No. What I did was I failed to delete your statements beyond where I inserted a reply. Count the '>' characters ;-). -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]