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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: acme mail
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:51:59 +0000
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> This has been discussed before, but why not just drop the BSD mbox
> format and use maildir or a similar format?  it will make this and
> many other problems go away or at the very least much easier to deal
> with.

The fixes I mentioned are about 11 lines of code - one for pop3 and
ten for imap4.  I am not aware of the many other problems that you
refer to.  I do know that you're not going to implement maildir in 11 lines.

> But IMHO the maildir-style storage is the best idea for now.

IMHO you are suffering from CADT syndrome, without the usual
associated work.

Russ