On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:33:43PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
[... Maildir is not for everyone ...]
> > 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...
I mean there's no percent display. With mbox you see:
`Reading <foo>... 310 (10%)', with Maildir you only see the number of
messages. Psychologically this makes the waiting seem longer ;)
> 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.
(Actually, I think all my saved mails have Lines: headers, so it's not
an issue for me).
Maildir sure has many of advantages (like faster saving when you delete
a single message from the beginning of a folder, etc.), but they are not
applicable to my situation. Mbox seems better for mail archives
(faster, smaller, and they are mostly read-only anyway).
Marius Gedminas
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