On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:30:12 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this is what maildir format is. A maildir is a directory with lots of > text files in them. each text file is a single email with all its info > intact. My setup (for a long time) (optional fetchmail), postfix - spamassasin, then what gets left in /var/mail gets brought in peroidcally with Sylpheed. Most emal sent to me goes right to postfix and then after spamassassin to either a spam folder or to /var/mail. Sylpheed keeps alll the messages underneath .Mail, one file per message, text format. I used to use KMail, which was originally set to keep all the mails in one huge file. Not as good, and for instance would never shrink the file when messages got deleted - the mail folder would just keep gettting bigger and bigger. My first experiences with trying to coax Kmail into handlnig messages better (one file per message) didn't prove very fruitful then, so I switched over to Sylpheed. Currently, I have over 51K files in there. I've had maybe over 70K at one time but have managed to delete a bunch :). On this box Sylpheed can get realy bogged down when loading messages into a folder that already has this many messages in it. Simply deleting a message takes a few seconds. It'll get worse as more and more messages get dumped into that folder. Perhaps, if some database / index was integrated, this might be a bit more livable. > many many many many large (really large) mail solutions are handled by > linux machines. What you are trying to do can surely be done and most google/gmail and other mail indexing for sure. glimpse and/or swish++ would help things out quite a bit (more notably, I would think, in "find text in message" situations). > A -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
