John H. Robinson, IV said:
>
> 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.
Except for the NFS part, cyrus IMAP has all the same features, and is
not maildir. There are a lot of arguments about why you should NEVER
store mail in NFS, but that's another discussion. Oh, and did I
mention that cyrus imap is really fast!
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