12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
21:44
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:21:54PM -0500 or thereabouts, Danny Sauer wrote:
Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] KMail question' on Wed, Aug 11 at 20:14: <snip>
_That_'s why I prefer mbox to maildir!
mbox - all mail is in one file, a bunch is lost due to the failure. maildir - one message per file, part of one message is lost due to the failure.
One other factor, Maildir does not use any locking as mbox does One of the benefits of the maildir format is that, even though it doesn't use locking to prevent simultaneous updates from different delivery agents, it's reliable. This means maildir mailboxes can safely reside on NFS-mounted filesystems. you can't use mbox on NFS and expect mail not to be lost or have broken spools. -- Gary