On 10 Aug 12:55, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:46:42PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Unless you're talking mbox, in which case, it's all a complete loss!
Of course I'm talking mbox! :-)
It's *so* much faster and more convenient in every way than maildir that there is absolutely no way I'm going back to maildir. I used maildir for a year or so until recently when I switched back, the difference in 'user feel' is huge.
Erm, until you want to delete that mail in the middle of the mbox... or archive off the previous month... or have 2 clients both trying to access the same mbox... or - mbox is dead, a decent filesystem gives good performance on Maildir, and Maildir mitigates a lot of the problems that mbox suffers - I'd not like to see any ISP using mbox as the backing store for e-mail, it's just not efficient.
Either you don't get a huge amount of mail, or don't archive it very often, I know from experience that using mbox directly in mutt will use a *lot* more memory than I use with the imap wrapper to the Maildir store (and I'm including the memory used by the imap wrapper!).
I have two ADSL connections with different ISPs so, as long as the physical connection doesn't get killed (which means I'm stuffed anyway) I can get to my mail. In addition I 'spool' my incoming mail to a system at the hosting service in parallel with sending it to my home system so if I really screw things up (not a *rare* event) I can still get to see my mail.
Erm, so, it comes in your ADSL line and then gets streamed back out of it to the hosting service? Sounds like an interesting waste of bandwidth! Why not MX the hosting service first and then get that to forward to ADSL connection?
No, it's forwarded from the hosting service to two addresses, one at the hosting service and the other here at home. A forwarding facility that allows one to forward to multiple addresses is a real boon, you can set up a new/test destination without affecting your existing set-up, test the new destination until it works properly and then turn off the original forwarding address.
Erm, OK - so the MX isn't the home ADSL line? Or you have an external domain that mail really goes to and then is forwarded to that one?