On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > 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). The lots of messages point occurs at around 10-20k messages. And even then on a decent computer it's ok. Plus if you have a filesystem that does hashing you never have that problem. The main gains from Maildir are: no locking any number of simultaneous programs accessing the mail without fear of corruption no rewriting the mailbox if you delete a message in the middle (computer goes down in the middle of this and you've lost some mail) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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