[nzlug] Mail + antiSpam + antivirus - your preference?

[Jim Cheetham]

On Nov 25, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Jim Cheetham wrote:
>> Ironically, the Maildir thing was the very reason that I *did* :-) 
>> Must
>> have first looked at the project much later in it's lifecycle that you
>> did ...
> At one time they used their own special mail format.

As opposed to Maildir, which was qmail's own special mail format :-)

Maildir is very good for reliable _delivery_, which is what qmail is 
for, but I'm not convinced that it's all that good for an IMAP 
datastore. Metadata is encoded in the filename (i.e. is the item 
unread?), and that makes it difficult to use file-level synchronisation 
tools (rsync, unison).

-jim