On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 00:23, Jay Daniels wrote: > About Maildir > If anyone knows any reason to use Maildir format beside just putting > mail in your home directory, please comment? I personally don't see > any benefits since mbox has worked great for years on many systems > around the world. On an under powered machine, with large mailboxes, Maildir works faster.. My server here is a screaming P166 with 144 megs... I had 10,000+ e-mails in it (it sux to get behind on mailing lists), and it just crawled.. By moving to Maildir, it only reads the one file at a time... Ok, searches are a bit slower, but a lot more bearable then where I was at.. -- Homer Parker /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign BOFH for homershut.net \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.homershut.net x No Word docs in email telnet://bbs.homershut.net / \ Respect for open standards "Bill Gates reports on security progress made and the challenges ahead." -- Microsoft's Homepage, on the day an SQL Server bug crippled large sections of the Internet.
