On 08/21/2014 12:15 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Then mbox is faster in normal operation (reading, browsing), it is more compact. But a file corruption could destroy the whole folder (never happened to me). However, being a plain text file, it can be probably reconstructed. On maildir, a file corruption damages a single email.
Not relevant. I have daily backups and snapshots (both -- serving different needs).
*IS* relevant! you're looking at this, Linda, from a purely technical POV. I have to admit, though, that, certainly in this thread, you're consistent with that :-) The point Carlos made is very pertinent. It something upchucks on reading your whole mbox, that's it. In your user's case it time out until admin can get a backup/snapshot restored. Think about it from the business work-flow. The point Carlos is making and that I'll try to illustrate the business value of, is that with maildir, unless you have soemthing really catastrophic that affects large parts of the disk/system, and is probably a hardware problem or a piece of unmittigated stupidity on the part of somoe in admin, much of the rest of the mail is still available and business can continue. Yes, loss of *that* file still might make a difference, but at least business has not ground to a halt for that user. There are many roles in business where the sustained flow of emails is the lifeblood of their work-flow. That translates into $MONEY$ Now yes I admit that for the likes of thee and me where we run mixed system and mine does procmail processing for lists and whitelistings before something humongous like SpamAssassin there are many opportunities for mitigating such risks and isolating matters. But thee and mee are far from typical and the systems we run are far from typical businesses. If I'm asked about business risk between mbox and maildir I'll come down in favour of maildir. And since, Linda, you are prone to agglutinate and commingle other parts of my responses, please make sure that when you use this you use the full context. This is about the business aspects, not the technology aspects. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org