I would like use maildir, but i'm on migration from cobalt 550, now
all users are using openwebmail.
And a good choise of Openwebmail is:
All preferences,... is stored in the user home.
I tested some webmail script (squirrelmail), but the preferences,.. is
stored in a http dir, with a http uid and gid
2006/4/15, W B Hacker <wbh@???>:
> Alex wrote:
>
> > I know that Maildir is bettter than mbox, but i need use ,
> > it works only with mbox.
> >
>
> Actually there are places where mbox may be better. Mailing
> list digests and some types of archives, to name two.
>
> But there are plenty of F/OSS Webmail clients around.
>
> - Most, but not all, expect to deal with an IMAP daemon,
>
> - at least two need neither POP nor IMAP daemons,
>
> - at least two can do POP and IMAP on local or remote servers,
> AND directly access mbox files on the server on which they
> reside, with or without IMAP or POP,
>
> - at least one needs no httpd, but implements its own https daemon.
>
> For those that expect IMAP:
>
> - more than a few IMAP daemons can use either Maildir or Mbox.
>
> - a few can use both at once, depending on per-domain or
> per-user settings.
>
> Exim can not only use either mbox or Maildir (and other storage
> types), it can be configured to do parallel deiveries to more
> than one type.
>
> You are only 'locked in' if you believe you are.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 2006/4/15, W B Hacker <wbh@???>:
> >
> >>Alex wrote:
> >>
> >>>if Exim needs to delibery and email and i'm in a pop session, how exim do this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>It does it very well. ;-)
> >>
> >>Or - to be more technical - it doesn't know or care if you are
> >>logged-in and receiving. It has no connection to the POP or IMAP
> >>daemons, save that of shared storage in the file system.
> >>
> >>There can be file system contention with mbox format, but you
> >>are not likely to notice it.
> >>
> >>Maildir format storage is generally not a problem - we run
> >>cross-box test traffic with Exim and Dovecot IMAP in Maildirs
> >>with well under 1 second transit and virtually 'immediate'
> >>retrieval.
> >>
> >>The Exim logs often show '0s' for both queue and delivery times,
> >>even with a fully PostgreSQL all-virtual installation.
> >>
> >>If you want something to worry about, make sure that you have
> >>both a fixed-IP and a proper DNS entry, PTR record especially.
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>
> >>Bill
> >>
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