On Sun, Apr 06, 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: In what ways maildir is probably 
better then mbox?":
> Think also of delivery of mail to such a mailbox: delivering a mail to a
> maildir is certainly much faster. So is delition.

For deletion your point is obviously true, but I don't think it's true for
delivery: delivery in an old-style mailbox file involves simply appending
a message to the end of the message - there is no need to search the big
mailbox for anything while doing it.

-- 
Nadav Har'El                        |         Sunday, Apr 6 2003, 4 Nisan 5763
[EMAIL PROTECTED]             |-----------------------------------------
Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Always go to other people's funerals,
http://nadav.harel.org.il           |otherwise they won't come to yours.

=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to