Quoting "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
6) Archiving mail based on date is far easier...
i.e. I like to copy old mail into rotating boxes at work and home, and then I
compress to save space, and tar previous year's into groups. Makes
sorting/looking through active boxes much faster. With mbox/mbx folders, I
have to create a new folder, open an imap client (I use imap), select those to
move, move them... make sure the client purged the deleted from the old folder,
etc.
With maildirs, I can make the new maildir/folder, then use find to move all the
msgs I want. i.e.
cd <base of old maildir folder>
find . -type f -ctime +30 -exec mv {} ../<base of new maildir folder>/. \;
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