On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:23:45PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I don't want to start a religious war, but is there consensus opinion > as to whether mbox or Maildir is better? I know mutt supports both > automatically, so it's probably a bit of a mute question, but mutt > also gives you the option of specifying which format new folders are > set up in, so I thought I'd ask. > i like maildir for two reasons: no need for locking and i use an nfs file system for mail. as for the speed of maildir, i can't complain. this list for example has over 1000 mails in its maildir and it opens and sorts in about 5 seconds which is fast enough for me given the reasons i use maildir. also, if something were to go horribly wrong, i would lose 1 mail while with mbox, at a minimu, you are left to try and figure out where your mbox file is hosed as well as losing the mail.
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