On Sun, 12 May 2002, Mark Crispin wrote: >On Mon, 13 May 2002 15:00:46 +1000, Andrew Hatfield wrote: >> mbox is slow and not indexed >That is certainly true. >> mbox is not robust or stable >That is certainly not true. For all its (many) faults (and "many" can be >called an understatement), traditional UNIX mailbox format is probably the >single most robust and stable format ever devised.
Are you saying that the standard UNIX mailbox format is safer and more consistent than, say for instance, Bernstein's Maildir format? If so, please explain because I don't immediately see this. Or do you put other meaning into the words "robust" and "stable"? Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen
