Each file il Maildir is supposed to have an unique name, so you can copy e-mails from one mailbox to another just by copying files into the adequate destination mailbox directory.
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:14:49 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- [email protected] mailing list
