> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William Hooper > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:58 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: MUA Filters vs Procmail filters[was] RE: Mailing list > procmail recipe > > > > Ow Mun Heng said: > > >> I believe it would also be more efficient when using IMAP > because the > >> mails get moved on the server instead of the client having to > >> move them, > >> but it might not be that big of a difference. > > > > How about Archiving the emails? > > Huh? if in mbox format, I go tar cf mail.tar.gz /var/spool/mail/username > > > How do we do that using Maildir format? > > (one of the reason I've not moved my laptop's mail format > to maildir) > > Again, IMAP is a protocol and independant of storage format. > > That said, it is my understanding that Maildir just stores > one message per > file so you back up the files. Sorry.. not IMAP, maildir format. so.. tar -cf maidir.tar.gz /var/spool/maildir ???
