31 Aug
2005
31 Aug
'05
9:21 p.m.
Lisandro Grullon wrote:
What method for mail boxes are you guys using mbox or maildir and which one would you recommend? Thanks.
I use maildir because it stores each message in a separate file. So this gets me:
Daily backups of a ~/Maildir are much smaller than a large mbox because most files don't change, while a single change to a large mbox file will require the entire mbox to be backed up.
Moving emails from folder to folder is much faster, as it's moving a single file and you don't have to delete an email from a middle of a mbox file.
I have a 5 year old 450 Mhz Dell that easily and quickly manages over 2 Gbytes of email for several users.
Regards, Blair