In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >2. Benchmarking mbox versus maildir > > http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ >This has to be a joke. Everybody who knows something about mail servers >can tell UW-* programs suck. The benchmark only confirms this, not that >maildir is faster
True. >(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for >tipical POP servers). Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying the entire mailbox usually at least twice. That can cause a heavy load on your mailserver. Also it is nessecary to scan the entire mbox at startup - readdir() is usually faster (if you skip the stat()) >Debian should make sensible decisions about use of available technology. >The reality is that maildir is only useful on some setups with remote >mounted mailboxes and broken NFS locking. There certainly are mailbox formats that are better than maildir, but IMHO unix-style mbox files isn't one of them. Mike.
