-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-02-13 at 19:30 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [02-13-09 18:52]:
On Friday, 2009-02-13 at 18:13 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
*Unfortunately*, the same is true of mbox, particularly it's handling of the From_/From(white-space) header.
Mmmm? What's that?
So far, I've never had problems feeding the mbox of one client to another.
:^), I haven't either.....but,
A recent discussion on the mutt-users list:
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:51:31 -0600 From: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@memoryhole.net> To: mutt-users@mutt.org Subject: Re: definition of signature separator
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If you're interested in some quick reading about the hilarity of "the mbox format" (such as it is), check this out: http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
In any case: DON'T USE MBOX! It's a lousy format for general-purpose email. The right mbox flavor can be good for read-only archives, but that's about it.
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I'll choose to ignore what they say :-) I've read recently very strong reasons against maildir. I understand their proponents think it is superior to mbox, and those of mbox think it is superior. Kind of vi vs emacs. Thus I choose mbox. My feelings as "a programmer that was" favour mbox: a file per message at a size about 2K, with file counts in the thousands or millions seems to me a waste of inodes. Disk space is wasted (unfilled clusters). Search has to be slower. On some filesystems it will simply not work. Or rather, an intermediate format, neither mbox nor maildir, better defined, knowing the problems and advantages of both. There one such proposal, named "mix", but as far as I know there are no practical implementations yet.
I commented that I had *never* experienced any problems with mbox that I knew about and after some further discussion some definitive points were presented that afaiac did not change my mind, I continue to use mbox.
I can forward the entire conversation or provide it for http access if you prefer (off-list), as long as the backups have not become outdated and are deleted :^)
No, don't worry. But thanks. :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmWFuoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U2jgCfaBIJzOyeZfnz9A6tVFLHa2g0 1IAAnjiabO1ZI007GDXg65GIrFludsIl =BOq3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org