On Friday 04 September 2009, sameer shinde wrote: > I've another concern of looking at the mail clients.(from the system > manager's view not the user) i.e. storeing the emial files & folders > in your harddisk. > The Outlook manages it very nicely in a single file ( a popularly > known as pst file)
Moving backward in time to a discredited and obsolete method of storing all mails in a single file - mbox. Why is a single file bad? locks. Enter the maildir format to solve your vanishing mails woes. http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html > Where as most other clients do it in many folders ways ( including > outlook express), a seperate folder for inbox, send mail & other. > With single file its very easy to store/backup/x'fer all the emails. > I'm testing many email clients but so far I've not found this feature > in > any email client than the MS outlook. Naturally. Only M$ will select the worst method and format. > > I'm not even bothering about which email server one is using as I've > worked on MS exchange as well as Zimbra. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Sameer Shinde. > M:- +91 98204 61580 > Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. > -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
