On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Andrey Zhidenkov wrote: > > > I'm using mutt about 6 month. For this time I have about 5000 messages > > in my mbox folder. What format is preffered for using with many > > messages? Is Maildir faster? I read in this mailing list that someone > > stores his mail in the folder, organized by years and month. I think > > that is very good idea. Is it very difficult to do that? > > It depends on how you receive mail. If you use fetchmail (or the like) > it's unlikely that you modify a folder during fetchmail is running and > thus mbox likely is a bit faster.
Yes, I'm using fetchmail to get my mail and procmail to sort it. > Otherwise maildir is the choice as it > has no concurrency issues. Thanks, I'll try it. > > Sorting into folders can be done using an mbox-hook and 'set move=yes' > in .muttrc. Thank you. One more question: can I convert my mbox folder to maildir format? I can suppose that I can move all my mail into another folder, configure procmail to work with maildir and then run procmail again. Is that right solution? > > Rocco
