On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:20:41PM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> format. Doesn't matter that much here at home but it could get
> significant on a real mail server...
Real mail servers usually have a farm of SMTP/POP boxes sharing access
to a common filestore containing user mailboxes. This is where Maildir
shines. It doesn't need any file locking and is safe over NFS.
Disk space is cheap these days too.
james
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