Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Ned Slider wrote:
>
>>>
>>
>> Ah, yes indeed. Thanks for the clarification - that completely passed
>> me over when I set up my system.
>>
>> 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 personally use maildir / imap. I don't know if this would happen
> with mbox as well, but one of the downsides to maildir is that you end
> up with a ton of tiny files making tar performance dismal if you
> decide to make a tar archive.
>
> I don't remember why I chose maildir when I did, that was eons ago.
> But I do remember I had a reason. The default was mbox and I changed
> it. It may have been performance related, but I don't remember.
>
> As far as why I use imap to access my mail - that's a no brainer, it
> lets me easily access it from almost any machine running almost any
> client.
I had AWFUL performance with mbox on a RH 7.2/uw-imap when the
number of mails (left in the mailbox) increased substantially (I am
talking about thousands of them). Switching to dovecot/imap solved that.
The box is still alive and kicking