On 10/9/2008 12:08 PM, CJ Keist wrote:
Charles, It's to do with how our current file services are setup and a personal preference and familiarity with the mbox format. Right now other than users inboxes, all mail folders are stored in the users home directory on central file server which the mail server mounts via NFS. Maildir is a big change from mbox and would give a confusing view to users that decided to look into their Maildir folder. I don't even want to think about what they might try mucking around with in there ;). mbox format is just cleaner and users can easily see that these are the same folders they see on their mail client.
<shudder>
I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if my users' mail was directly accessible by the users... ;)
But if I ever get the money to add enough local disk storage on our mail server and can move all users mail folders to the mail server, is when I would probably think about switching over to the Maildir format. This way the users only way to access their Maildir folder would be through a mail client.
I feel your pain...
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Best regards,
Charles