On Thu 12-Jul-2001 at 12:49:39PM +, Jonathan Miller wrote:
> I really love the concept of vfolders, which are basically SQL
> statements that create "folders" out of a bunch of mail in a database.
This is a definite issue with the mail-as-file system for storing mail.
Lik
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
> We had several problems with ReiserFS, we even lost a machine due to
> FS corruption. We rather use XFS... or ext3
>
Little off topic, but how well has ext3 been working for you? Are you
having problems with it?
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:48:53AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Not only that but create a reiserfs filesystem and put your Maildir on it.
> It will absolutely FLY! reiserfs was designed for handling many small
> files such as in a Maildir. I've been using reiserfs for a year now with
> excellent
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:59:00PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
>
> > I've done some experimenting with Maildirs. I've found it to be quite
> > a bit *slower* than mbox, particularly on big folders. This is on a
> > Linux ext2
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:03:36PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote:
> Note the requirement to use the hostname. Note that procmail doesn't.
> Procmail is broken.
Does on mine:
_vz.z77T7.titanium
[breser@titanium new]$ hostname
titanium
[breser@titanium new]$ procmail -v
procmail v3.14 1999/11/22, Copyr
So sprach »Magnus Bodin« am 2001-07-15 um 21:38:49 +0200 :
> I agree however, that the procmail filenames are ugly.
How do real maildir filenames look like? In reality, that is - we all
heard the spec :)
Alexander Skwar
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So sprach »Tim Legant« am 2001-07-15 um 14:03:36 -0500 :
> "Okay, so you're writing messages. A unique name has three pieces,
> separated by dots. On the left is the result of time(). On the right is
> the result of gethostname(). In the middle is something that doesn't
> repeat within one
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:03:36PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:31:44PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote:
> > > Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs.
> > > If procmail correctly foll
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:31:44PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote:
> > Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs.
> > If procmail correctly followed the specification for maildirs,
> > duplicates would be impossi
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote:
> >
> > 995153880.17759_1.teich
> > 995153880.17760_1.teich
> > 995153880.17761_1.teich
> >
>
> Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs.
> If procmail correctly followed the specification for maildirs
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:42:03AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach »Walt Mankowski« am 2001-07-13 um 19:04:43 -0400 :
> > Maildirs have some neat advantages of their own. For example it's
> > very easy to merge two folders together. I send mail from my laptop,
>
> Hmm, dunno, but I f
So sprach »Walt Mankowski« am 2001-07-13 um 19:04:43 -0400 :
> Maildirs have some neat advantages of their own. For example it's
> very easy to merge two folders together. I send mail from my laptop,
Hmm, dunno, but I find a cat old_mbox >> current_mbox also quite easy.
Dunno how maildir names
ins the hostname, I'm guaranteed to not have any name collisions.
All I have to do is periodically scp or rsync everything in
~/Mail/sent/cur on my laptop and ISP to ~/Mail/sent/cur on my desktop,
and suddenly everything is in one place.
> Though, to bring it back to vfolders (remember
main reason I haven't moved
to Maildir, is the searchability of a single file. Yes, I know
you can use grep -r, and most indexers will index multiple files,
but you get filenames like ~/Mail/mutt-users/new/57834896890 or
whatever Maildir uses to name its files.
Though, to bring it back to vf
Thus spake Walt Mankowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Depends where the messages are that you're deleting. I find I'm
> generally deleting the newest messages, which are at the end of the
> file and don't take long at all to delete. I open the folder to check
> for new messages a lot more often than
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:59:00PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Yeah, but try deleting a mail from that 50MB mailbox. Boy, this will
> suck.
Depends where the messages are that you're deleting. I find I'm
generally deleting the newest messages, which are at the end of the
file and don't take
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I've done some experimenting with Maildirs. I've found it to be quite
> a bit *slower* than mbox, particularly on big folders. This is on a
> Linux ext2 partition. I had one Maildir that was an archive of a
> high-traffic mailin
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:33:04PM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote:
> Have you considered Maildir format? It was designed specifically
> to compensate for the limitations of mbox format, specifically
> locking and speed.
I've done some experimenting with Maildirs. I've found it to be quite
a bi
lly love the concept
> of vfolders, which are basically SQL statements that create "folders"
> out of a bunch of mail in a database. Unfortunately all the email
> clients that use this kind of technology are X based, and I need a
> console client.
>
> Anyhow, I was wo
lly love the concept
> of vfolders, which are basically SQL statements that create "folders"
> out of a bunch of mail in a database. Unfortunately all the email
> clients that use this kind of technology are X based, and I need a
> console client.
Have you considered Maildir form
I've recently become unhappy with the way that my email is
sorted/stored/whatever, and I've been looking into more advanced ways
of handling it as opposed to a big text file. I really love the concept
of vfolders, which are basically SQL statements that create "folders"
out o
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