-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-02-13 at 20:09 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Yes, so do I, fetchmail, postfix, procmail. But that doesn't mean I have to use maildir. I will not while it doesn't become a standard for all programs. I have read some very strong things agains maildir from some developpers...
Care to tell what kind of problems in what context were caused by maildir?
Just ask dev Mark Crispin what he thinks about maildir... in the context of MUAs, specially, not servers. I have links to the alpine-alpha mail list, where he has been quite explicit, but they require password. For example: inode waste, in the count of millions. Slow text search, unless you use some database indexing, like beagle. It does not really support concurrency, like one client reading one email and another different client erasing that same email. That there is no standard, and each client or server does its own interpretation. Courier, for instance, uses something like maildir, but not actually maildir. I am, of course, interested in the client side. What an imap server uses internally, does not matter. And the problem is that not all mail client use the same format of maildir folders, if they use any at all. The two clients I use most, ie, Alpine and Thunderbird, do not support maildir. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmV0uQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V4wACcC9q6YtLsi33GgVF6pCKlEOa4 1v4AnR+TThVl0LjCH88h7emVrHAUNmhE =FPEZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org