On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Erik Christiansen wrote:
(*) yes, i still use mbox files...haven't ever had any really compelling reason to switch to Maildir
Yes, well, there seem to be all sorts of things, these days, which are newer and therefore better. I probably have less than a million emails, and they're in 1041 mailboxes, so I can't think of a reason either.
I can think of a reason :) Backups of mboxes are a real pain. Append 4k of text, and have to rebackup a 1GB mbox file. Maildir allows me to just link that 4k message into the backup, and effectively keep the earlier snapshots without having to purge them out earlier because I've run out of space on my backup regime. Of course, the reason why I originally moved to Maildir was because I was doing a migration for work, which had been using the original mbox imapd from UW. Gee, that was a poorly written piece of crap (but it has an excuse - being the reference imap server). The server struggled a lot less once I replaced the IMAP daemon :) -- Tim Connors