On Mon, 2022-09-19 at 21:59 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Mail servers, on the other hand, were jumping to the
file-per-message
method just as fast as Usenet servers discarded it, and are still using
it.
I certainly noticed a massive improvement when I went from mail spool
files to maildir on Dovecot.
I can see the thinking behind using links as flags as opposed to files
with just a few bytes of data in them. Though I think it wouldn't work
well with large configuration files being done that way, and I couldn't
see them being very human-friendly.
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uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022 x86_64
Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.