I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 10 08:04:55 UTC 2008
On Monday 09 June 2008 22:24:36 Rick Stevens wrote:
> I believe mbox would be much slower. Deleting a thread would force the
> system to search through the entire file to find the messages, delete
> them, then compact the file to close up the space (there'd be a lot of
> fairly big holes in that file).
>
> In maildir format, it only has to drop the files containing the threaded
> messages. The holes in the folder index would be much smaller and
> easier to compact.
>
> I've never compared the two with actual data, but the logic seems sound.
> But then again, I used to eat library paste when I was a kid. You can't
> go by me. :-)
I changed to maildir because my mboxes had reached a stage where there was a
definite performance hit. I'm not just reporting theory, I have practical
experience. maildir is much faster than mbox.
Anne
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