on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access
> > messages as individual files, and more robust. Plus 'From' doesn't need
> > to be escaped at start of line.
>
> Why better performance? If there's lots of messages, directory
> manipulation becomes very slow (at least on IDE drive).
Directory insertion/deletion (Maildir) vs. file insertion/deletion
(mbox).
Mailder is far more robust (djb gets _some_ things right). And deals
with simultaneous access and multiple updates (say, d-u, where I
typically get new mail every few minutes) far better than mbox.
I try to keep my mailboxes <1k messages, though with Maildir I've had
20k+ messages with few problems.
Peace.
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