On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:33:25PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'd probably do that on a new setup with no existing users, but there > is no real advantage to maildir except for imap users and it will break > any existing programs that expect to manipulate traditional mbox format > directly. No real advantage? How about: "You're able to actually tell where a message stops and the next one begins without hoping someone has mangled the body of the message?" It's also handy if you want to have, say, multiple copies of a mail client open at once and you prefer not to corrupt your mailbox. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
