Re: Change default MTA was Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Ronny Buchmann <ronny-vlug vlugnet org>]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 20:14, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> I'm sure I'm not the only one that moves around the globe with a
> few hundred megs of mail folders in mbox format in his back.  And
> it happens to me to open my mail folders / mailbox / etc on a
> Solaris, or other unices...  My point is that mbox is such an
Defaulting to maildir doesn't mean support for mbox would be removed.

Also conversion between the two is easy.

> standard now.  Is there any practical problem with that?
> Something like a stopper?
locking problems (especially for /var/spool/mail)
If MDA and MUA try to access it at the same time, you run into problems when 
they don't agree on a locking scheme or when using NFS.

Maildirs don't need locking.

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