Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???
Michael D. Schleif, 2003-Feb-09 15:05 -0600:
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> Considering moving from mbox to maildir a very large (~2GB, ~1000000
> messages) email archive. Mostly concerned with the integrity of
> receiving messages intact.
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> Obviously, this will impact performance and inodes used.
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> Given this brief overview, what ought I to consider?
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> Are there other options to consider?
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> How else might I handle this data?
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> What do you think?
I've not used mh mail boxes before, only maildir and mbox. I use
maildir for my active mailboxes for it's ability to keep messages from
getting messed up on delivery (sorry for the non-tech reason). For
mail boxes that I use for archive and are non-active, I use mbox for
it's ease in backing up.
Performance-wise, I don't think you'll notice a difference in loading
the mail box on a modern machine. On older, slower machines, you
might see the mbox loading faster than the maildir folders.
If I had an archive mail box that size, I'd leave it as an mbox so I
can back it up easier since it's a single file as opposed to a
directory.
my 2 cents,
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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