On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/31/08 15:54, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:00:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/27/08 15:27, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > > > >>> Would using mbox make it any better? > >> Depends on your definition of "better". uw-imapd and (maybe) > >> Dovecot support mbox-backed-IMAP, so maybe that's the route you > >> should take. > > > > uw-imapd supports mbox and an improved folder-in-a-file format called > > mbx. > > And when you need to delete an email from the middle of an huge > sequential file? > > The bottom line is that sequential files are *bad* "huge data" > stores for everything except append-only log files.
I didn't say it was optimal. I only said it was way better than non-indexed mbox. And then, of course, is the counter claim that maildir requires you many more system calls for the basic operation of scanning a mailbox, which is more common than modifying a mailbox. (This is, at least, the opinion of Mark Crispin, last time I read him in a discussion on that topic) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
