I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 09 June 2008 22:24:36 Rick Stevens wrote:
> I believe mbox would be much slower.  Deleting a thread would force the
> system to search through the entire file to find the messages, delete
> them, then compact the file to close up the space (there'd be a lot of
> fairly big holes in that file).
>
> In maildir format, it only has to drop the files containing the threaded
> messages.  The holes in the folder index would be much smaller and
> easier to compact.
>
> I've never compared the two with actual data, but the logic seems sound.
> But then again, I used to eat library paste when I was a kid.  You can't
> go by me.  :-)

I changed to maildir because my mboxes had reached a stage where there was a 
definite performance hit.  I'm not just reporting theory, I have practical 
experience.  maildir is much faster than mbox.

Anne
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