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Re:Files Are Hard by _pmf_ on Sunday December 13, 2015 @10:24AM (#10726530)
Wasn't part of the need for Maildir indexability rather than reliability?
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Re:Files Are Hard by quesera on Sunday December 13, 2015 @11:01AM (#10726641)
It provides both. mbox was a known evil 20 years ago, so it's a bad example for the article.

The qmail spec describes queuing and delivery in a filesystem-safe manner.

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