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. > > > 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. > 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? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
