On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Andrew Richards wrote:
The other nice thing about Maildirs is that because of their (as Bennett says) "everything Just Works" design, you can have multiple machines writing entries (messages) to the same Maildir without their needing to be aware of one another's existence; that really helps systems to scale.
Maildirs work very well.
More info on qmail at www.qmail.org and cr.yp.to/qmail.html
Or if you want something that is easy to configure and has a continuing history of development without the 'linux new version of the day', check out Postfix (http://www.postfix.org/) which supports Maildir format out of the box as well as mbox format allowing you to 'change' from one to the other when you are ready.