From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: luis@tieguy.org (Luis Villa) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:47:57 -0500 Subject: [sup-talk] 'best' mail storage for sup? In-Reply-To: <1227209118-sup-6176@ausone.local> References: <2cb10c440811201035w1a95f7d7y40c335e0c69a96a3@mail.gmail.com> <1227209118-sup-6176@ausone.local> Message-ID: <2cb10c440811201247y4f4beeb1w96742886df23c4f5@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Nicolas Pouillard wrote: > Excerpts from Luis Villa's message of Thu Nov 20 19:35:08 +0100 2008: >> hey, all- >> >> If I were going to start a new mail account from scratch, what is >> preferred/most reliable- mbox or maildir? I assume maildir, but just >> wanted to check. > > I do prefer the mbox format, however it may depends on the ways you get your > mails. In this particular case, probably just getmail from a POP server, which can drop into either mbox or maildir as appropriate. Luis