>>>>> "Jim" == Jim <zli...@ns.sympatico.ca> writes:
>> Instead, use Maildir format with one message per file, Jim> I thought about that once, but I decided I have too many e-mail Jim> messages for that. (I don't want to run out of inodes, nor do I want to Jim> make file accesses too slow because of the number of files in the Jim> directory.) If you keep your archive Maildirs on another disk, with a filesystem explicitly setup for large number of inodes, then you're all set. I too agree that Maildir (or archives split by month or year) is a better way than just a single large monster mail file. But to each is own...