On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:33:04PM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote:
> Have you considered Maildir format? It was designed specifically
> to compensate for the limitations of mbox format, specifically
> locking and speed.
I've done some experimenting with Maildirs. I've found it to be quite
a bit *slower* than mbox, particularly on big folders. This is on a
Linux ext2 partition. I had one Maildir that was an archive of a
high-traffic mailing list. It had around 15,000 messages and was over
50 megs in size. Mutt was taking over a minute to open the folder.
The equivalent mbox folder took just a few seconds.
Walt
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