-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 08:42:39AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, April 05, 2018 02:26:01 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...] > > Increase that by 2-3 orders of magnitude [...] > I'm laughing (at myself)--I just checked my mail directory, I have at least 4 > mbox files (and then I stopped looking) greater than 175 MB. One of them, my > inbox, is 2.8 GB--no problems. > > I do need to compact my inbox, and I did, but maybe the actual file isn't > changed until I quit kmail--I'll try that later. Actually people saying mbox is a bad database are in principle right (I never liked maildir either: dumping metadata into file names seemed to me a bit disgusting too, but I disgress). But there's something special about mail databases which eases that a bit: records (i.e. mails) are *mostly* immutable (save for some metadata), so cleverly written libs (mutt, dovecot) can be suprisingly good despite all. But then when I see people proposing XML as structured data representation, I suddenly grow very sad... Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlrGHKQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbeJQCfS1sQhck1kmoysI4bBR2gRUtn +LMAnAjbK9bFWygOtoA1OwmS9TLqulHU =BvB3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
