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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: |
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> Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail. |
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> On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home |
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> (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files. |
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> Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that mail is actually |
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> in /home too... |
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There have been many discussions for years about how maildir is superior |
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to mbox format... Im sure Google will help you find them. |
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> Not for me, but for my users. Now I have to go through each mailreader |
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> and find out how to force it reading mails from .maildir |
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There is probably a global config file for most mailers. |
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> BTW, if some users do not have $HOME, where their .maildir will be??? |
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Not all email systems use /var/mail or $HOME, qmail+vpopmail stores email |
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for everyone under /home/vpopmail/domains for example. |
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> > You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If you *really* |
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> > want to use mbox... |
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> That seem to me to be much easier. First I will find some info about it, |
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> but if there is no substantial advantage in using maildirs instead of |
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> /var/sool/mail, I will switch to the "old" mail storage system... |
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We had all sorts of performance problems with mbox format - it is not |
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scaleable, bigger mboxes produce huge loads on the server. I should also |
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mention that maildir is inherently safer over NFS than mbox. |
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Its clear from your posting that you have yet to experience the problems |
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that have caused a lot of server administrators to abandon mbox format. |
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