Functional overview

Message store

UnixWare provides a message store system, used by the MUAs and sendmail to increase performance when reading and writing mail folders.

Message store options can be configured in the following ways:

On a system-wide basis, using the Mail Manager. This alters the file /etc/default/mail and sets the system defaults. See ``Managing folder configuration'' for more details.
On a per-user basis, in $HOME/.maildefs, which, if present, overrides the settings in /etc/default/mail for that user.

The UnixWare sendmail system supplies a programming interface for the creation of message store applications. This is described in full in Message store programming.

For more information on the message store see ``Message store''.