Re: [sheflug] MUA recommendations?

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:31 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> Alex Hudson wrote:
> > Alternatively, is it really that big a deal that you store mail in
> > Maildir?
> 
> Of course it's a matter of personal taste, but my current ~/Mail/ is in
> Maildir format, it's a good format for grepping (e.g. over ssh), it's
> considered more stable than mbox (a corrupted file affects only one
> message), and you don't get the spurious "> From ..." lines in the
> bodies of messages.

I grant you greppability, but the other two problems you mentioned are
really implementation bugs, not problems inherent in the format.

The extent to which corruption can ruin mail is very much in the eye of
the programmer, and the > From thing has been solved for many years ;)

Cheers,

Alex.


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