[CentOS-docs] Simple postfix/dovecot guide?

Ralph Angenendt

ra+centos at br-online.de
Fri Jan 25 12:28:28 UTC 2008


Ned Slider wrote:
> Any thoughts on mbox vs maildir and pop vs imap. Is there accepted best 
> practice or is this something best left to the individual users discretion 
> after reading up for themselves on the individual merits of each?

I'd always go for Maildir/ - the problem with overfull directories
(80000 mails in a maildir, for example) isn't as problematic as all the
locking issues you have with mbox. 

Ralph
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