On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:17, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:17 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > > Mbox is good for using less disk space and often faster searching. > > However, an mbox is just a large file, and deleting anything from the > > middle (though not the end) /requires/ making a copy of the file > > without the deleted messages. You might need a hard limit twice the > > soft limit. > > > > Maildir keeps the messages in separate files, so it will take about > > 1.5x the space of mbox and put more pressure on the filesystem > > (inodes!), but messages are more easily deleted. > > And depending on your mail client, it keeps a local copy of the mail in > one or the other formats. So file system benefits may be undone, either > way. Generally the client and server are on different machines. > e.g. Using Evolution and Dovecot with mbox (it started that way, and now > I'm considering changing to maildir because it's getting slow), I end up > with a ~/mail/ directory full of mbox files per folder, *and* a > ~/.evolution/ directory with mostly the same thing in a different > format. If you are running on the same machine you might as well either let evolution see the mbox/maildir storage itself or download via pop so evolution has the only copy. You only need client/server operation if you are on another machine or use different clients from different locations. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
