reformime bug?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 16 16:21:08 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Harald Becker <ralda at gmx.de> wrote:
>  > Or, better, you might consider using popmaildir and new Maildir/
> format for your mail box. It's much safer.
>
> I don't like maildir! Too many files hanging around. Too much wasted
> space.

Imagine you have a 10 gig mbox file. You delete a few 4kb emails.
How this space is going to be reclaimed?

With maildir, it's a trivial problem.

> My current INBOX holds about 400 Messages, my log reception boxes
> hold between 1000 and 3000 messages (One message every 4 hours or so).

Mine is about 50000 messages. Your point?

> And why is Maildir safer? Locking works perfect, I never had any trouble
> with this.

Locking over NFS is problematic.

Maildir does not need any locking whatsoever,
it only needs atomic renames IIRC.

> I think reformail should definitely accept both line terminations or you
> are not able to use reformail easily on a standard MBOX type sytem.

I agree. Someone needs to create a patch.

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