Bug#109171: Use Maildir format by default
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
> disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
> modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at the
> beginning of a line. MUAs like mutt also save the user's mail folders in the
> same problematic format.
I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the mbox
format is that every byte of the file must be read to extract headers
of the messages .. i.e. display a list of the messages without
necessarily showing any data. Does maildir employ a summarization
technique or must an MUA open every single file to extract the mailbox
headers?
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