On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:53:54 -0400, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

>Quoting Nick Boyce (nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk):
>>
>>  ... how do I know which mailbox format my system is set up to use
>> by default ?
>>
>> This is a new NetBSD box, and basically nobody has read any of their
>> mail by any method just yet.
>
>sendmail typically uses mail.local (or /bin/mail) which uses "version 7"
>mailboxes (known as "mbox" sloppily).

Ah .. thanks for clarifying that for me.

>And if you have thousands of users or thousands of messages,
>maildir will give you an advantage.  If you have to ask, it may
>be that you don't need it.

Well I don't have a strong opinion either way.  The mail volume will
indeed be very low - but I need a nice way to read the system mail
from other machines, so I want to install a POP3 or IMAP server, and
am thinking of either Courier-IMAP or popa3d ... which needs me to
make that basic mailbox-format decision.

I may well install postfix, just to help me get to know it (I already
know Exim from all my Debian boxes), so I guess that would make a
maildir decision for me.

Thanks.

Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK