Re: mutt+Maildir Pros & Cons?
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> on Sun, Apr 21, 2002, Paul Mackinney (paul@mackinney.net) wrote:
> > Patrick Hsieh declaimed:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > I use postfix and Maildir together.
> > > When I export MAIL=$HOME/Maildir, mutt can read the inbox.
> > > But when I send mail out, it will not backup in the $HOME/Maildir/.Sent
> > > directory. How to make it work?
> > I've been using mutt with mbox, fairly happy.
> >
> > I understand the argument for maildir (all eggs not in one basket),
The most important advantage is that no locking is required for
maildir. Furthermore, operations on mail in maildirs (copying, deleted,
etc.) tend to be faster because the entire folder does not have to be
re-written as it would for mbox.
The "all eggs not in one basket" is, IMO, the weakest argument for mbox
vs. maildir. Backups are what you use to protect against corruption,
not just keeping lots of files around.
> > are there any cons?
>
> It's slow on opening large folders. Discussed here in the past two
> weeks. There's a patch to build an index file for folders, not yet in
> Debian.
Of course, that's a mutt-only problem. The general drawback to maildirs
is that they eat lots of inodes.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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