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Re: [LUG] exim pop mysql and other animals

 

Simon Waters wrote:

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

Can you justify that?

> 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.

"trash" folder?

> 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.

Indeed.

> 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?

Could do, not ever implemented a system with Maildir at a system level
though. 

Steve

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