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. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:39:04 up 7:40, 9 users, load average: 0.40, 0.97, 0.85
