On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:49:33PM -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> > I suggest Courier-IMAP too. Courier co-operates well with Exim.
> > The only restriction is you must use Maildir format.
>
> and it's not much of a "restriction". maildir format works tolerably
> well. for large mailboxes. it's distinctly better than the monolithic
> mailbox files of the UW POP/IMAP server.
I guess that depends on your definition of "better".
You avoid locking issues on mail deliveries, true.
However maildir directories cause many more disk operations as you have
a lot more files to stat (potentially) and open/read/close.
So while maildir might be better after you reach the mbox threshold, you
get to a point where maildir's own thresholds make it less better than
mbox :-)
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