On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 10:43:31AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > On 2003-04-05 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > mbox has two major problems: > > * All the data is in one file (locking problems) > > * there is no index to that file. Thus operations are highly > > inefficient. > > .. > > > mbx is wu's attempt to create a more efficient mailbox format. > > Although they are now working on an improved one. > > I've heard of mbx, but mutt doesn't seem to support it :(.
The coed is there. There is a library (by default: statically linked. Debian has it dynamically-linked, to save at least 3MB of disk). I can't attest to the quality of that code, and to its adaptibility. > I wonder > why there is no widely suppported *indexed* mailbox format. Some other mailers have their own such formats. At least mozilla and evoltion (the two I have checked) > BTW, I tried maildir but it doesn't help much in this respect. not > really surprising, since it's just a directory. jusl like mbox, it > does not have an index. So I am staying with the simpler mbox. With ext2 , and certainly with reiserfs (optimised for many small files) maildir operations seem to be faster. Basically: you at least know where exatly is every message. Think also of delivery of mail to such a mailbox: delivering a mail to a maildir is certainly much faster. So is delition. However, last time I tried using maildirs with mutt, I just couldn't figured out how to navigate between folders. So I gave up and returned to maildirs (which was a shame, because this was one of the reasons I had prepared a reiserfs partition, and I spent some time converting the mailboxes to maildirs). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
