On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, Yann Golanski wrote:
> Maildir are a very good thing (tm) when you need to implement a large
> mail system. With Mailboxes, you have to lock to file before writting to
> it, and if there are more than one delivery to one user, then they have
> to wait... Not good.
You still have to lock the message index with Maildir - what you're saying is
that Maildir implementations have better locking mechanisms? Hmm.. well with
qpopper in servermode, I'm not convinced of this one at all. I might concede
that multiple deliveries might be a tad quicker, but then if it's a large
enough system you're load-balancing your mail delivery over a couple of
machines, so it isn't that big an issue right?
> For small systems, then who cares realy.
Administrators of small systems. Don't dismiss the mail admin who has to run a
small university department mail system with less than a thousand accounts. It
matters just as much to them as it does to those with over a million accounts -
it's just that different considerations need to be made typically. For example,
should it be strawbery jam or chocolate covered donoughts you should eat whilst
reading the filter spec.? ;-)
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