On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Derek Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> This argument strikes me as being a lot like the mbox vs. maildir > argument: the big benefit of maildir is that it's less likely to > corrupt your mailboxes (that, and avoiding the locking problem)... > But in 20 years or so of using mbox, I've never experienced that > problem. :) In 28 years or so of using mbox, I've been burned by this problem eight times. I switched to Maildir years ago for my personal mail archives, but my Mailman lists still use mbox, and whenever I had to rebuild a list archive containing decades of list traffic, I've often discovered that the huge mbox file had silently been corrupted in one or more places. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: [email protected] OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 2011 PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: [email protected] 2011 PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
