On 08/20/2014 08:13 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 08/20/2014 06:42 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Will you please stop propagating this nonsense that maildir is non standard. Its a reliable standard that has been in use for getting on for 40 years, it long pre-dates Linux, long pre-dates UNIX on PCS. It history goes back to the MH messaging system and was based on the idea that the shell/text tools make more sense when email is in a one-message-per-file format. If that 'stinks' of CLI-ness, then yes, and it tells you how old this is.
Point of order: maildir is less than 19-years old. It was invented by Dan Bernstein for use in his qmail MTA, which started in Dec 1995, as per a quick google search.
I did mention that maildir has a history going back to MH. djb just tidied it all up and formalized it. The one-message-per-file pre-dated qmail. MH is still in use today. You can read the O'Reilly book and ... https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.7/mail-account-manage-mh-format-dir... http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/
Regarding usability, I prefer mbox because of its reliability and ease of access with standard text tools. Locking hasn't been an issue for me, as long as I don't mount via NFS.
And so, in the heavily networked NFS based workstation environment that, for example, SUN used internally and implemented elsewhere, which amounted to what might be termed a 'log in anywhere are your /home appears', was all based on NFS. Often there was what we now call a 'thin client' and the whole machine was NFS mounted.[1][2] [1] Oh wow! Microsoft adopted this: 'roaming profile' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming_user_profile <quote> A roaming user profile is a concept in the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that allows users with a computer joined to a Windows Server domain to log on to any computer on the same network and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same. </quote> Well SUN did it first with UNIX and NFS. [2] One snowed in winter I tried this. I started with a LiveCD on an old laptop and mounted my /home/anton from my desktop. Great! next I used a PXE boot on the laptop and NFS mounted /, /usr, /var and /home. It actually performed better than running of the LiveCD. So I put my /home (and ~/MyDocuments and ~/MyMusic etc) on a server and install suse on a 20G drive and ... that's how I ended up with a maildir ~/Mail/INBOX. Even though I now I have a large workstation for my desktop. -- The trouble with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org