On 9/13/2007 11:05 AM, Lan Barnes wrote:
On Thu, September 13, 2007 10:08 am, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
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.
I've been using IMAP for mail with my own server for several years and
am quite happy with it. Using XFS now. My wife and I rarely delete
messages, and have about 140K messages between the two of us. I use
Courier-imap server. IMAP does a decent job of searching. We both use
Thunderbird and we each can access our mail store from our laptops using
IMAP-ssl and an Internet connection from anywhere.
Karl
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