>--On 12/02/02 01:15:42 -0500 Eric Gillespie wrote:
>> Unless you have to support users who *need* mbox, go with
>> maildir.  Delivery to a maildir is atomic, while mbox is
>> guaranteed to give you a corrupt mailbox once in a while.
>
>Not true.  While the mbox format is poorly designed, corruption will only 
>be a problem if you use mail over NFS or if your mail clients and delivery 
>agent don't agree on a locking method.  The big problem with mbox is that 
>you cannot have multiple processes with simultaneous write access.

mbox will also corrupt if the system crashes while a message is being 
written to it. If you expect a high load, then Maildir is infinitaly 
safer.