On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 06:50:56PM +0200, Christian Ordig wrote:
> > You have a point here, and that could be a killer feature for mbox
> > format ;-)
> right... but who really uses mbox when it comes to have more than
> 1000 or 2000 messages in a folder?
I do. I've tried Maildirs and found them to be slower to open (about
twice for the first time and only very slightly slower when everything
is in the cache), bigger (a single folder with 3100 messages took 13 Mb
in mbox, and 21 Mb in Maildir format -- on ext2 fs with 4K blocks), and
less convenient (no progress indication while opening and no line
counting).
Perhaps I'll switch to Maildir when I'll start using Reiserfs (or NFS).
Marius Gedminas
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