> 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.

But any corruption is trivially fixable - with your standard editor.

The most likely corruption (as opposed to something that leaves
you with an empty file) is a partial message that ends in a partial
line.  Even that only causes two messages to run into each other.

Ok it does take a while for (eg mutt) to parse a file containing
20000+ messages.  But a directory with 20000+ files is probably
worse.

It is certainly handy to be able to use standard tools to search
mailboxes.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk