Re: Mailboxes, etc.
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:59:27PM -0400, Aaron (aaron@core-dev.com) wrote:
> > No relation to the P.O. box chain :p
> >
> > I wonder what most people use to organize their local mail these days? I
> > don't run a full-on MTA, I rely on fetchmail and procmail for the
> > delivery of my messages, and they are stored (by default) in mbox
> > format.
> >
> > Are there any comparative guides out there? What are the benefits of
> > procmail/postfix/qmail/sendmail/fetchmail/etc.? The issue of mail in
> > Linux is very complicated. What is the most efficient format for storing
> > local mail? mbox, Maildir, postfix+mySQL, printed in hex to a
> > lineprinter, read by Festival into an auto-loading cassette deck?
Line printer? Jeez, it's been 12 years since I've seen a line printer.
Makes me all misty-eyed and nostalgic thinking about debugging
VAX BASIC & VS COBOL programs on green-bar printouts.
> > I'm finding mbox to be very SLOW with many messages (understandably),
> > but the process of switching to Maildir is complex enough that I want to
> > be sure I'm making the right choice.
>
> 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).
> Conversion: Use mutt. Set default mailbox type to maildir. Move your
> old mailbox directory from, say, "Mail" to "Mail-old". Tag all messages
> in a mailbox and move 'em to the new mailbox -- it'll be created
> automatically.
Newer versions of Evo let you store each sub-folder in mbox, mh or
maildir.
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