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Re: [LUG] Why maildir was Re: Impressive AMD 64 Etch install

 

On Nov 13, 2006, Simon Waters was like:

> Seriously, the problem with mbox is that by putting all the email in one
> file, you readily end up with files that at 300MB in size, and easily
> corrupted. 

I've never had that problem. I'm only an ordinary punter so I don't have
a 300MB mbox. I keep e-mail if it is interesting or needs acting on 
otherwise I delete it. Doesn't everyone? 

> and the day you get 500MB delivered

That'll be the day; I'm just not in that league. I wouldn't try to argue
that mbox is better but in my experience it is not broke so why fix? 
Well ok it looks as if mb2md is quite easy; I'll have a look. Gotta
keep up.

Tony Sumner

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