On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Jason Helfman wrote:
> Is their a reason to really use the gzip patch with Maildir style
> mailboxes?
The current version of the compressed folders patch does not support
Maildir yet, but only single file folder formats like mbox and mmdf.
From a pragmatic point of view, it may be a good idea to extend this
mechanism to support folder formats which consist of multiple file by
using something like tar, but I personally don't see where this should
be good for, because the advantage of formats like Maildir is, that
the single messages are independent of each other, so no locking is
necessary. If you combine this with tar, this advantage will go away,
so why not directly use gzipped mbox for archive folders?
> I think there is but, I'd like to know some other opinions of this.
I agree with you.
Tschoeeee
Roland
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