Re: [CentOS] Archive mail format?

Vreme: 11/02/2011 09:42 PM, Les Mikesell piše:

Thanks - I think most of what I'd want to keep is still accessible via imap. What I'm wondering is if there is a general consensus about the file format for long term storage that would be most likely to permit direct search and access from some future mail reader, possibly on some other OS. I suppose I could make a VM image that I could fire up as an imap server again, but that seems kind of cumbersome.

Here is excellent comparison: http://www.linuxmail.info/mbox-maildir-mail-storage-formats/

If you disregard larger size issue (directory/file-system compression?), maildir is better since you have one mail = one file, so direct search will work.