Waldemar --
...and then Waldemar Brodkorb said...
% Hello Muttusers,
Hello!
%
% What are the advantages/disadvantages of the different types of
% Mailboxes/Maildirs? Where could I read something about this?
You can see quite a bit of conversation in the mailing list archives;
this comes up frequently.
Basically, mh and maildir store their messages at one message per file,
so normail *NIX file tools work well. Conversely, mmdf and mbox store
their messages in one file. Opening mbox files is typically faster than
maildirs because of the huge number of filesystem calls involved with the
latter, but updating an early message can be faster with a maildir
because mutt doesn't have to rewrite the entire [potentially large] mbox.
For me, mbox is more than sufficient; I never have speed problems even
on 16M files of thousands of messages, and mbox compresses a lot more
easily than maildir (though I still harbor the suspicion that Roland's
compressed-folders patch could be used recursively to first uncompress
and then untar a maildir...). The only compelling justification I've yet
seen for maildir is in an NFS environment where file locking can be an
issue, since there is none with maildir format.
% What's better if you want to search thousand's of Mails?
% Are there any helpful tools I could use for it?
There's a tool called grepmail, possibly part of a utils package, that
will grep for strings in an mbox and return the particular mail entry
that contains a match (rather than just a line), which is quite nice.
HTH & HAND
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