On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:43 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:50:00AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 09:05, Derek Martin wrote: > > > I'm not sure how dovecot works internally, but I know UW-IMAP makes > > > temporary copies of the whole mailbox when the user is deleting > > > stuff... > [snip] > > With mbox format there isn't much choice but to copy the whole > > file to make any change. > > Now why would you say a thing like that? ;-) > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:17:25PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > > Mbox is good for using less disk space and often faster searching. > > Indeed. Though some users argue that it is more convenient to search > maildir, because you can use tools like grep and such. For anyone that's interested, there's a useful tool in Extras called "grepmail" that searches mbox-format mail folders. It can pull out mail items by headers, body, date, etc. Very useful. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
