RE: mbox vs. Maildir (was: Re: [Evolution] expunge speed)

["Gonyou, Austin" <austin coremetrics com>]

So far, my Maildir has been WAY faster then mbox. My mbox, when it got
beyond about 50Mb, got sooooo sloooow. 

-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin coremetrics com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:ASkwar digitalprojects com]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:37 PM
> To: Brian
> Cc: evolution ximian com
> Subject: Re: mbox vs. Maildir (was: Re: [Evolution] expunge speed)
>
>
> So sprach »Brian« am 2001-08-20 um 16:13:38 -0500 :
> > Try having two or more front end mail servers that mount 
> the backend (ie
> > the machine with the mail spool) via NFS.  You might not 
> know you have a
> > problem as the MTA will end up silently dropping mail over time.
>
> Hmm, I don't do something like this, so I didn't think of this.
>
> Well, I'll agree that Maildir is really superior - 
> technically at least.
> Alas, it's performance isn't that good in the client I use.  Wonder
> why...  Well, I suppose because it needs to open each and every file
> once?  And maybe because mutt was designed for mbox?  Dunno.
>
> Alexander Skwar
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