On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 12:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > This is why I recommended mbox in the first place. If your only writes > to these mailbox files are appends of new messages, mbox is the best > format by far. It's faster at appending than any other format, and it's > faster for searching than any other.
Just as long as you're not simultaneously trying to read and write the mbox file (or just write in 2+ sessions). Then there's a lot waiting on locks. (mdbox has no read locks, and its write locks are very short lived.)
