Evo MailDir [Re: Complaints about using this list...]

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Jan 7 08:41:02 UTC 2005


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
> 
> > 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.

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.


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