On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 16:49:09 +1000, David Clarke wrote: | > Perhaps try maildir mailboxes for the mailboxes on NFS, that should help | > prevent problems with locking. | | I prefer to keep the mbox format for these mailboxes, because this | makes easier for other operations (like grepping or copying them).
grep -r
cp -r
How does maildir inhibit those operations? I actually find maildir
better for grepping because grep tells me which file (message) the
match was found in. Then I can use mutt or vi to view the message
directly. (I told exim to include the mbox From_ line at the
beginning of each message, so in effect I have lots of mbox folders
containing one message each in the maildir folder :-)) In addition,
it is easy to limit your grep to just new messages or old messages as
well by choosing to grep through only the 'new' or 'cur' subdirectory.
-D
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