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[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:21:47PM -0400, Rich Braun wrote:
> dsr <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> >> ...some arguments from folks who have made the switch from mbox to
> >> maildirs.
> 
> Aside from the performance and reliability issues you raised, are there
> software capabilities available in maildirs format that cannot be implemented
> in plain-text mbox format?

No, not really. As I said, having each message in a separate file makes
things more UNIXy from my perspective. Mbox is sort of like having
everything already in tar files: every operation starts with "untar your
archive" and ends with "and tar it back up".

-dsr-