On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, but try deleting a mail from that 50MB mailbox. Boy, this will
suck.
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