Raul == Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Raul Also note that mbox format need not be lossy -- MDA should
Raul quote with any line matching regexp ^*From , MUA should
Raul always remove one level of quoting at display time. Any
Raul software not following this is losing
Raul == Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Raul Use quoted-printable.
Ok, I didn't realize that quoted printable coped with this. My
experimentation shows that a line starting with From is turned into
=46rom (using mutt). Not very readable to a human reader, but at
least any program
[I know this thread is old.]
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the mbox
format is that every byte of the file must be read to extract headers
of the messages .. i.e. display a list of the messages without
Raul == Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Raul [I know this thread is old.]
Raul On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the
mbox format is that every byte of the file must be read to
Hi,
I am not sure this is a good timing for this to be a policy
proposal. Please read on to see why I think so.
Cesar == Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cesar Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default.
[ Snip reasons for why this is not a good idea
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
On Aug 19, Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
eximconfig) and all the MUAs must be able to grok it without needing any
manual configuration
Are you offering to be the one which will patch everything and make the
upstream maintainers merge maildir support? And don't forget POP
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. Benchmarking mbox versus maildir
http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
This has to be a joke. Everybody who knows something about mail servers
can tell UW-* programs suck. The benchmark only confirms this, not that
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:51:05PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
tipical POP servers).
Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
the entire mailbox usually at least twice.
Copying it once and renaming it, surely?
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
and broken NFS locking.
Is there any other kind?
--
G. Branden Robinson| When dogma enters the brain, all
Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases.
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On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
See the second reference I gave in the original message...
That tells us that UW-imap sucks. And that's not news.
On Aug 19, Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
tipical POP servers).
Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
the entire mailbox usually at least twice. That can cause a heavy
A tipical POP user downloads
According to Anthony Towns:
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:51:05PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
tipical POP servers).
Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
the entire mailbox usually at least twice.
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at the
beginning
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