On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:22:33PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote: > hello, > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:02:49PM, Thorsten Haude wrote: > > >Not a answer, just a question, how to switch to maildir ? > > After my experinces: Don't. > Oh my god... > I just switched from mbox to maildir... and also reswitch to mbox... > > 2 minutes 38 to open my in.mutt maildir (± 6000 mails) instead of 18 > secondes to the same in mbox format !!!! > Wow, I knew maildir was slower but not by that much. I guess it has to do with reading each individual file instead of scanning the mbox.
I've been considering converting back to mbox but havn't come up with anything justifiable. > > also, how to change my procmail filter to maildir ? > Maildirs are > foo/ > foo/cur/ > foo/new/ > foo/tmp/ Procmail should just have (The trailing slash specifies maildir): foo/ > When I receive a new mail to foo, I've got > foo/ > foo/cur/ > foo/new/ > foo/tmp/ > mbox.Tlk > > And of course cannot read the new mail... > curt -- Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
