Lan Barnes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:42:00PM -0800, Gregory Ruiz-Ade wrote: > > > > God I love maildirs. :) > > I would love to see this as a presentation at a general meeting. > Especially the procmail and conversion to maildirs (including why).
Why? There is only one reason why not: i-node depletion. In the real world, i-node depletion does not occur, you run out of space on your partition first. If you use a filesystem like reiserfs, there is no such thing as i-node depletion, period. Why? 1) The *only* NFS safe mailbox, PERIOD. 2) easily grepable. (if you want to find that one message with the string you want, since each message is its own file, grep will report the filename which is the message) 3) no doubts as to where a message ends and where it does not. 4) no From_ quoting (hi, MBOX!) 5) No locking, no corruption. If that is not enough to sell you, I don't know what is. Some people consider mail too important a thing to risk. Maildir removes all risk other than hardware failure. And user error, of course. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
