On Monday 26 September 2005 12:30 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Montag, 26. September 2005 14:07 schrieb Randy Kramer: > > Is there / will there ever be a fix for this? > > Sure, rename your inbox to some other folder and let kmail recreate it as > maildir. maildir does not has such problems because every e-mail is a > seperate file. Speed then depends on the used filesystem (e.g. for lots of > small files if you only have short text mails). Maildir is usually faster > for mailboxes with lots of (big) attachments.
Thanks! I suppose maildir will be OK (and maybe even better) for my inbox, which I generally keep "trimmed" (not too many emails). I don't think I want to do that for my mail folders which often have a lot (thousands) of archived emails (usually short). Is it the general consensus that mbox is more subject to corruption than maildir? I guess I'll want to dig into that so more--not so much for email, but because I'm building a plain text database with multiple records per file. I use a text record separator to separate records (currently "\n---++ "). My largest file at the moment is about 3000 records with 3 M characters. I haven't seen the need to create an index yet, but that may be coming. I guess if I get some corruption without the index, I'll eventually notice it in some record that I look at it, and may be able to fix it, as everything is visible plain text, at least when viewed in a (plain) text editor. Well, anyway, I guess there's something for me to think about here. regards, Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
