[Ti] Mail Problem / System Prefs Problem

[Chris Olson]

On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 09:32 AM, Matt Henderson wrote

> Having convinced my brother to give the MacOS X platform a try, he 
> bought
> an iMac. He's been quite happy so far, but we've ran into the following
> problems (existed in 10.2.3 and continue in 10.2.4):
<snipped>

Try creating a new user on the system, log in as that new user, 
configure your Mail program, and then test it.  If it works ok from the 
new user account, you have a corrupted mbox file someplace in your 
~/Library/Mail directory.  It baffles me as to why AppleMail is using 
mbox format for message storage.  mbox has a long history of problems, 
and with the advent of Dan Bernstein's Maildir (which positively rocks 
and which was part of his qmail project ), mbox is long ago obsolete as 
a mail storage format.  The "other" unix GUI mail client, KMail, uses 
Maildir.
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Chris Olson
Administrator
AST Communications,  Inc.
Barron,  WI   USA