Evo MailDir [Re: Complaints about using this list...]
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Jan 7 09:11:59 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:51, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:41 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:22, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:13 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 21:11, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > > > Evolution
> > > > > uses mbox-format files to store mail internally too.
> > > >
> > > > With an option to change it to MailDir.
> > >
> > > How?
> >
> > Go to folder of choice, Right click, and then select.
> > There's 3 there. Mbox/MH/MailDir
>
> That's not what I see here:
>
> Copy...
> Move...
> New Folder...
> Rename...
> Delete
> Properties
>
> The Properties dialog just has a tickbox for enabling/disabling
> indexing.
I noticed that you're using 2.0x of Evo. I'm on 1.4.x. attached is a
screenshot.
>
> > > > All my mail-lists are in mbox (due to HUGE #s)
> > >
> > > Why are large #s a problem?
> >
> > 52,644 mails for fedora list alone.
> > I don't archive it by month/year/hour.
>
> I like to do incremental backups during the week, which is why I'm
> particulary interested in MailDir for the folders for my busy mailing
> lists, like this one.
I'm lazy and since this is a laptop, Only backup are when I remember and
when I feel like it :-(
>
> > And I store my mails in XFS home directory. That means there's some
> > inherrent slow_ness with dealing with large #s of small files.
>
> I'm on ext3; is that likely to be better or worse?
ext3 is OK. Ext3, to me is more like the allrounder.
XFS is good for _large_ files. reiserfs for small/lots of files.
It's Good as a squid proxy cache though. (benchmarks shows that ext3 on
2.4 shows the best performance compared to even using reiserfs)
--
Ow Mun Heng
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