On 08/20/2014 03:13 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/19/2014 09:37 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
The only place that cannot (AFAIK) be in maildir format is the INBOX.
I'm sorry, Linda, that is not the case. My INBOX *is* in maildir format.
And it is in /var/spool/mail??? Does it create a subdir there and put messages in that?
No. Why are you hung up on this? The shift to putting user's email in ~/Mail or ~/Maildir came about a long long time ago and that's where maildir mail lived. When you let go of the obsession with mbox and the obsession with packing everything in a single file, which dates back to the early days of UNIX when there was a tight limit on the number of open files because kernel tables were a fixed size determined at kernel compile time, and all the hassle that goes with the mbox format. The mbox format has locking issues: in effect you are trying to edit the middle of a on open file (e.g tagging or making as read), deleting a chunk out of the middle when you garbage a message, while another process is trying to insert another message into the file. With maildir that's not a problem. The mbox format is an emergent property of the days when UNIX was resource limited in quite a number of ways. Linda you know full well that the archaic (I recall it from V6 and V7 systems in the late 1970s) /var/spool style is tied inexorably to mbox, so what you're really doing here is trying to say Maildir is stupid because it can't use /var/spool/mail in a way that's compatible with mbox. Which is true but like saying that cars are stupid because you don't steer them with reins and you don't use spurs to make them go faster. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org