On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:02:46 -0700 Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> wrote: > Sylpheed opens folders very quickly because it keeps its own index > file in each folder, and so does not need to read headers from every > file. Yes. :) > Since Sylpheed uses MH format, which requires a folder lock any > time you want to modify a folder, it can do this without any real > disadvantage. Maildir, however, does not need folder locks, so adding > an index file(which would have to be locked for modification) seems > like a bad idea. Well, I didn't think that MH required entire-directory locks. Anyways, even if that's true, a) Mutt doesn't use a cache, even for MH, b) Mutt doesn't use a cache, for anything(I don't think), and c) there's no reason the cache needs to be within the folder itself :) -- ________________________________________________________________________ \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / eelf@sympatico.ca, elf@terrabox.com | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \======================================================================/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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