Re: difference between mbox and maildir?
Le 28/05/2006 à 14:50:05-0800, Noah a écrit Hi there, might somebody send me to a website that explains the differnce between mbox and maildir? Or maybe you can just explain the differences in a response. mbox -- one file for all message Maildir -- One file for each message Advantage : mbox -- You can use old commande like «mail» to read you mail and...I search... Maildir - Very scalable. - Fast Disavantage : mbox -- with big mbox every access (by qpopper or other mail deamon) need to open the file, and close. This need many time. -- If there are some problem during the open/close time the all mbox is corrupt. Maildir - You can not use «mail» command. Conclusion : If you don't have mail server and you want to install one -- Use maildir If you have old mail server using mbox -- Think to swap to maildir. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Tue May 30 22:20:06 CEST 2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: difference between mbox and maildir?
Noah wrote: might somebody send me to a website that explains the differnce between mbox and maildir? Or maybe you can just explain the differences in a response. http://www.google.com/search?hl=deq=maildir+mboxbtnG=Google-Suchemeta= ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: difference between mbox and maildir?
On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:50:05 -0800 Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, might somebody send me to a website that explains the differnce between mbox and maildir? Or maybe you can just explain the differences in a response. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir Maildir is your friend. Mbox likes to blow up. The only nice thing about mbox is it only uses a single inode. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: difference between mbox and maildir?
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:50:05 -0800 Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, might somebody send me to a website that explains the differnce between mbox and maildir? Or maybe you can just explain the differences in a response. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir Maildir is your friend. Mbox likes to blow up. The only nice thing about mbox is it only uses a single inode. Yep, maildir is the way to go. Incremental backups are easier with it as well. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
