Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 10 May 2000:
> 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),
No idea about those, I've not measured things for myself. Size increase
is given of course, speed decrease sound possible...
On the other hand, if you have a folder with one 50MB email, it's
significantly faster as Maildir. :-) But that's hardly the "common"
case.
> and
> less convenient (no progress indication while opening and no line
> counting).
Huh? I get progress indication when opening a Maildir folder, every 10
messages, which means the counter is basically just a blur...
No line counting? That's just a procmail rule away. Although if you
don't want to use procmail (or maildrop), I guess it's a problem then.
Mikko
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