>>>>> "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...

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