On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 02:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:19, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) 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). > > > > Directory insertion/deletion (Maildir) vs. file insertion/deletion > > (mbox). > > > > Mailder is far more robust (djb gets _some_ things right). And deals > > with simultaneous access and multiple updates (say, d-u, where I > > typically get new mail every few minutes) far better than mbox. > > > > I try to keep my mailboxes <1k messages, though with Maildir I've had > > 20k+ messages with few problems. > > While we're on the topic: > > I'm thinking of building an IMAP server out of a Via EPIA 5000 mobo > (533MHz Eden CPU http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=2#p2), > 512MB RAM & 40GB HDD. > > Will this have the "oomph" to open large mail directories, etc, > in a timely fashion? Only 2 people will be using it, but I get > ~3600 spams per day. My IMAP (Courier) server is an Athlon 650 with 128 MB of RAM, and an old (probably ATA 66, or maybe even 33) 8 GB hard drive. With it, opening up my debian-user folder which generally gets up to about 2k messages before I start archiving, takes about 3 seconds in Evolution. In mutt, since AFAIK mutt doesn't cache the folders at all, it can take 10 - 15 seconds to open up at times. But once it's all opened up, everything works just fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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