On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some > > disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible > > modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at > > the > > beginning of a line. MUAs like mutt also save the user's mail folders in the > > same problematic format. > > I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the mbox > format is that every byte of the file must be read to extract headers > of the messages .. i.e. display a list of the messages without > necessarily showing any data. Does maildir employ a summarization > technique or must an MUA open every single file to extract the mailbox > headers? >
See the second reference I gave in the original message... -- Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
