Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:26:32PM +0000, Axel Green wrote:
>From: Axel Green <axeltabs@hotmail.com>
>To: richard@the-place.net, debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:26:32 +0000
>Subject: Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)
>>>
>>> The best way is Maildir, with a header caching patch.
>>
>>Surely maildir also uses massively more disk space? All those thousands
>>of small files. Or am I misunderstanding something?
>>
>
>thats only if you have lots of small messages. If your fs has blocks size
>512b then it should be no problem at all :)
>But year, fs with blocks size 4KB and lets say 10000 mails each 4.1KB --
>mbox woudl be ~41MB, whilst Maildir is now ~80MB...
>But anyway Maildir gives you great reliability (mail is never lost), search
>&etc operations are faster....
What are the other features of maildir over mbox, if someone can
summarize? Say one needs to open a maildir under the other OS, what do
you use? mbox is supported by nearly all email clients on the other OS
but maildir? That is the question now.
Regards,
Deboo
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