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		_pmf_ on Dec 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Files Are Hard Wasn't part of the need for Maildir indexability rather than reliability?

quesera on Dec 13, 2015 [–]

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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