[Gllug] RE: Mailbox formats, was RedHat

[Jonathan Dye]

>>From the man page of maildir :
>" A machine may crash while it is delivering a message.  For both mbox files
>and mh folders this means that the message will be silently truncated.  Even
>worse: for mbox format, if the message is truncated in the middle of a
line, it
>will be
>silently joined to the next message.  The mail transport agent will try again
>later to deliver the message, but it is unacceptable that a corrupted message
>should show up at all. In maildir, every message is guaranteed complete upon
>delivery."

I keep thinking of changing my mail storage method to maildir but I wasn't
sure that procmail worked with that OK so I never got around to doing it.
Could someone tell me if I can use procmail and if not is there an
alternative that is just as good.  Or have I got completely confused.

JD

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