Mikko H�nninen writes:
> But, the commentary completely misses the good points and the purpose
> of Maildirs: that they're ideal for incoming mail delivery, especially
> when the folder is accesses over NFS (whether "access" delivery or
> reading or both). Maildir format is not something you should be using
> for email archival, or for very large mail folders. However, the lack
> of locking requirement is a big win over NFS.
Right, and any scalable email system is going to use NFS. Therefore
the question in my mind is not "What should be used for large folders
instead of Maildirs?" but instead "What must be done to make Maildirs
more efficient"? One way to do that would be for Dan to change the
Maildir specification so that a Maildir may have multiple "cur"
directories. Then, keep a CDB containing a subset of the message
headers.
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