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:

1. 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.

2. 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