Re: [LUG] Maildirs vs mbox files

[John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've managed to get Debian 3.1 working as a mail server with Fetchmail, 
> Procmail and Dovecot.
>
> At the moment, procmail transfers mail to mbox files in each users home 
> directory under $HOME/.mail
>
> So far so good, it appears to be working fine.  I was wondering though, 
> what would be better to use... mbox files (which as far as I can tell 
> put every mail item bunched together in one file per folder), or into 
> maildir directories (which from the looks of things on my old SME 
> server, creates shed loads of files - 1 for each message).
>
> Just was thinking along the lines of possible hard disk corruption, 
> backup etc.

mbox files really come into their own when they're on a server and 
you're accessing mail over a network.

jd.

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