Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)

[Luke Reeves <luke@neuro-tech.net>]

This is a page that benchmarks mbox vs. maildir files:

http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/

It's got some interesting results.  Personally I keep gigabytes of mail 
in mbox files on an IMAP server, and organize each folder by year (so I 
have an Archives_2003, Archives_2002) and performance has not been a 
problem yet.

	Luke Reeves
	http://www.neuro-tech.net/

Deboo wrote:
>    I'm subscribed to lots of mailing lists. I use mutt for email. Now
>    using emacs, I use mutt within emacs since I use IMAP and find it
>    hard to use gnus (which kinda behaves like pine, being
>    news-oriented). I archive some mailing lists and have some
>    mailboxes, going nearly over 40MBs or more. Now loading mutt within
>    emacs and loading such a big mailbox, loads okay but makes mutt
>    slow under emacs.
>
>    What is the best way to use such big mailboxes? I
>    do not like to convert to maildirs, I'm using mbox format. Though
>    I heard that maildir is faster, isn't it harder to backup or carry
>    around? Just a single mbox file is easy to carry if need be. But anyway,
>    what's the best way to use large mailbixes?
>
> Regards,
> Deboo