On Friday 04 September 2009, sameer shinde wrote:
I've another concern of looking at the mail clients.(from the system manager's view not the user) i.e. storeing the emial files & folders in your harddisk. The Outlook manages it very nicely in a single file ( a popularly known as pst file)
Moving backward in time to a discredited and obsolete method of storing all mails in a single file - mbox. Why is a single file bad? locks. Enter the maildir format to solve your vanishing mails woes. http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
Where as most other clients do it in many folders ways ( including outlook express), a seperate folder for inbox, send mail & other. With single file its very easy to store/backup/x'fer all the emails. I'm testing many email clients but so far I've not found this feature in any email client than the MS outlook.
Naturally. Only M$ will select the worst method and format.
I'm not even bothering about which email server one is using as I've worked on MS exchange as well as Zimbra.
Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.