Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (818 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 02:12 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> > John Andersen wrote:
> > > On 8/26/2011 8:24 AM, James Knott wrote:
> > > > James Knott wrote:
> > > >  I have also used UoW before.  Should I  be using other than Cyrus? 
> > > > The only reason I went with it is because it was the default imap server 
> > > > install with opensuse 11.4.  What about dovecot?
> > > Dovecot gets good reviews.
> > > Cyrus seems to work for me just fine.  It seems bullit proof.
> > > See 6.4 on this page: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Cyrus-IMAP.html
> > > 6.4 Adding the default user
> > I went from UoW IMAP to dovecot -- unlike Cyrus, it didn't require 
> > I  reformat my
> > email boxes (all in unix 'mbox format', as they all started as 
> > Unix-mbox's)... into
> > it's custom format.  And Dovecot is very fast....
>
> mbox is fast?  I don't believe that for a second.  I doubt Dovecot uses
> mbox; it probably converted the mail to maildir or UoW was already using
> maildir.  mbox is a broken and obsolete mailbox format;  and very slow.

Back in 1998, jwz answered know-it-alls like you:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html

And, he knows a bit more about email than you, I'm quite sure.
Or, maybe, just, *did* you write an MUA used by millions of people
sometimes in the last two decades and I just don't recognize your name?

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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