On 9/13/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, September 13, 2007 10:08 am, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> > On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Lan Barnes wrote:
> >
> >> <sigh> Gues I'm on my own. Best to Ralph.
> >
> > I've installed MH on RHEL, but I've never actually used it.
> >
> > Gregory
> >
>
> I'm unhappy with how I handle mail. I was happy when I used fetchmail to
> bring it local and used mutt/vi, but the server that I used had a crisis
> and I've been living with a browser interface ever since that has all the
> disadvantages of browser interfaces I dislike so much.
>
> My mail server supports imap I'm told, and I see the advantage of keeping
> mail all in one place so I can look at it from anywhere. Actually, I could
> do that before using ssh/putty to get to the home server that I kept it
> on.
>
> I consider mail to be an important service but mail archives to be
> semi-disposable. I rarely refer back to them and often can't find stuff I
> saved because of topic drift or lousy subject lines. So if I lose a year's
> mail, I shrug and start collecting another year's.
>
> Anyway, MH looks interesting because of the opportunities to integrate it
> into just about anything through scripting. I find the separate file for
> each message problematic because I know (or think I know) that inodes are
> finite, at least in ext2/3. Can a Linux box have one mount point with an
> unlimited fs (reiserfs?)? I dunno. But if MH supports imap, I suspect that
> concern goes away.
One can create ext2/3 file systems with more than the usual proportion
of inodes. See mkfs.ext2 option -N.
carl
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