Evo MailDir [Re: Complaints about using this list...]

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:41 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:22, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:13 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 21:11, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > >  Evolution 
> > > > uses mbox-format files to store mail internally too.
> > > 
> > > With an option to change it to MailDir.
> > 
> > How?
> 
> Go to folder of choice, Right click, and then select.
> There's 3 there. Mbox/MH/MailDir

That's not what I see here:

Copy...
Move...
New Folder...
Rename...
Delete
Properties

The Properties dialog just has a tickbox for enabling/disabling
indexing.

> > > All my mail-lists are in mbox (due to HUGE #s)
> > 
> > Why are large #s a problem?
> 
> 52,644 mails for fedora list alone. 
> I don't archive it by month/year/hour.

I like to do incremental backups during the week, which is why I'm
particulary interested in MailDir for the folders for my busy mailing
lists, like this one.

> And I store my mails in XFS home directory. That means there's some
> inherrent slow_ness with dealing with large #s of small files.

I'm on ext3; is that likely to be better or worse?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>