Jim Cheetham wrote:
because historically all of your mails are waiting in a single file for you to read.
*if* the back-end mailstore is mbox, which is still prevalent.
However, there have been decent alternatives available for many years, I end up using Maildir a lot (even though it's djbloodyb), where all messages are separate individual files.
> I built one platform for
freeserve uk, and looked after a part of their client base.
I thought that they ran qmail (and hence maildir by default) until Planet Online / Energis2 switched them to Exim ...
I'm in the process of building up an IMAP mailer for myself so I can get
I'm currently building a virtual email server from scratch, if you're interested in joining in, let me know. I'm wanting to use a db backend (ldap or mysql) to drive the mta (exim currently, ssl/tls and auth), anubis and procmail, storage as maildir and possibly binc as the imap server. Courier is possibly overly complex.
-jim
