-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David E. Fox wrote: > 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.
That's the MH format. Similar in concept to Maildir, simplistic file naming scheme. Much better than mbox, of course. > 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. The standard solution to this is to break that folder into multiple date-range-based "archive" folders. That way, no one folder/subdir will have a huge amount of files in it. As for searching files, what DE do you use? Beagle (is there a KDE equivalent?) might help. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEiqB6S9HxQb37XmcRAk0ZAJsHBS3p02Dx2ykfMHHTMyJzZPgWEQCeMmhg HYOCkXbTq86/tNjvnvvlntQ= =+Kcu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
