[Imap-use] E-mails set to unread

[Vince LaMonica]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:

} PS: The best remedy is to switch your mailbox format to an alternative mailbox
} format, as described in the UW IMAP FAQs:
} 	http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/#4.5
} 
} That FAQ answer suggests mbx format; however these days mix format is
} recommended for very large mailboxes.

I've just migrated my server from unix to mbx, though not yet in 
production, I am considering migrating from mbx to mix. My biggest hang 
up [besides that i don't like to be on the bleeding edge in production 
enviroments] is that I am not clear what MUAs can read mix mailboxes. 
While I use Pine 99.9% of the time, I do sometimes use webmail 
[horde.org's IMP]. Also I'm not the only person on the server, so other 
users could be using Apple's Mail.app, Thunderbird, iPhone mail, 
Outlook[|Express], etc. 

I've not been successful in finding a list of MUAs that can read mix 
format [i also still need to read up on how to configure postfix and 
procmail to deliver/filter into mix mailboxes; i have hundres of procmail 
recipes that i fear will need refining].

I have well over 8GB of e.mail in ~/mail spread over a few hundred 
mailboxes and about 500MB spread over about 50 mailboxes in ~/.mailbox 
plus a [hopefully!] small /var/mail/vjl INBOX. While I do have the most 
mail when compared to other users on the system, I still want to make 
sure that, as far as they are concerned, they will either see no change 
in performance or an increase in performance. I have not done enough 
testing with the mbx migration that I did to make any conclusions on 
speed increases [it certainly can't be any slower than what i'm used 
to!].

But I am worried about how clients like I listed above work with mix. :(

/vjl/