Jonathan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 07/12/2001:
> I've recently become unhappy with the way that my email is
> sorted/stored/whatever, and I've been looking into more advanced ways
> of handling it as opposed to a big text file. I really love the concept
> of vfolders, which are basically SQL statements that create "folders"
> out of a bunch of mail in a database. Unfortunately all the email
> clients that use this kind of technology are X based, and I need a
> console client.
Have you considered Maildir format? It was designed specifically
to compensate for the limitations of mbox format, specifically
locking and speed. Take a look at
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html for some info.
>From this document:
Why should I use maildir?
Two words: no locks. An MUA can read and delete messages while
new mail is being delivered: each message is stored in a separate
file with a unique name, so it isn't affected by operations on
other messages. An MUA doesn't have to worry about partially
delivered mail: each message is safely written to disk in the tmp
subdirectory before it is moved to new. The maildir format is
reliable even over NFS.
(darren)
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