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The Perfect Setup - Debian Woody (3.0) This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Debian based server (Debian Woody alias Debian 3.0) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

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By: tado

Hi,

are there any advantages using maildir and not mailbox format?

Thanks, Tado

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Yes, Maildir stores each email in a separate file whereas mbox uses on big file to store all messages. That means if an email is corrupted you lose all your mails if you use mbox.

And if you use mbox each time a user fetches his mails over POP3, the whole mbox is copied to another file from which the mails are retrieved. This means that if a user has a quota limit, this limit has to be at least twive the size of his mbox file. This does not happen if you use Maildir because then no files are copied.

Thomas

By: Anonymous

apt-cache search mb2md

By: Mike Hosken

Thanks for still having this available, setting up a vintage web and mail server just got a whole lot easier.