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Re: [LUG] exim pop mysql and other animals

 

Steve Marvell wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> 
>>Only thing, I wouldn't use the Debian stable "dovecot" is the mail is in 
>>mbox, it works fine with maildir, but is a bit suspect with mbox.
> 
> 
> That sounds bad.

Well mbox is for people who don't really want to keep their email safe,
so they are probably use to the odd problem ;)

I have one remaining user with dovecot and mbox using IMAP (on an old
Redhat box), and he gets a lot of big emails, and his trash folder fails
about once a month.

That isn't exactly the version in Debian stable I don't think, but they
are the same vintage. You might have less issues with POP3 than I have
with IMAP, as obviously the behaviour is quite different.

Where I've used maildir with dovecot in Debian stable, I've never seen
one issue with mailboxes - it "just works" and keeps on working. Sure
you don't want to convert to maildir?

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