-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/08 18:06, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> 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.
That may be why searching a whole folder is so slow in Tbird & courier-imapd. Or maybe not. > (This is, at least, the opinion of Mark Crispin, last time I read him in > a discussion on that topic) > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.", Mr. Spock -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIQehGS9HxQb37XmcRAusRAKDpen3BVtIF8ZgeOoyNMZ8MQio3xwCfc+ag YGm6cMxa+rxfwk3coXb3VK8= =9OEL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
