On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 12:43 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and > > cons of each. > > > > Thanks. > > > I think maildir is better for handling small files, and maildir stores > each mail in seperate files, while Mbox stores them in one, so if > anything bad happens to your mails, you won't lose all in maildir case.
Think of a mbox with thousands of messages totalling many Gig's. to get to the most recent message you need to open one file and read through those gigs, to get to the last one. All of the file has to be loaded to memory. mbox chokes on big mail folders. maildir is more efficient in that situation. Anyway there are plenty of analyses of the differences between the two and their comparative strengths and weaknesses. google will help. This has damn all to do with gentoo. > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
