On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MC> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: MC> > Sorry, I forgot about that one. But AFAIK it's very uncommon compared to MC> > mbox and mh. In fact, I don't know any programs using it, do you? MC> MC> Well, gee, you're talking about a hack to extend mh format for c-client MC> that mh itself won't know about. That's a different format. But backwards compatible with MH and mostly (or even fully) compatible with quite a few of modern MUAs which use similar "mh+" formats. MC> > For a typical usage scenario it definitely is. I didn't do any hard MC> > testing but mh was certainly much faster for me than mbox for mailboxes MC> > containing from 1000 to 20000 messages. MC> MC> With what client? Both XFMail and my own Mahogany (using cclient). The performance hit when I had to abandon mh (because flags are too useful to have) was really painful. MC> If you actually use IMAP as IMAP, with such things as MC> fetching envelopes and searches, you'll find something different. I don't see why fetching envelopes would be slow(er), as for searches it's not something that I do every 30 seconds (unlike expunging). MC> > If there were any chance of you MC> > accepting patches to the mh driver, I would do some tests comparing mbox MC> > and mh on a few different systems to prove it. MC> MC> Since those patches won't be compatible with the original mh program, I'm MC> not interested. I might be missing something there but why wouldn't they be compatible? The mh program would still work with these files, just not benefit from any new features. MC> The successors in the one-message/one-file style of doing things are such MC> formats as Cyrus, mx, and yes maildir. I've looked up mx in cclient docs and you write yourself that you have abandoned it -- hardly a good sign. The other 2 are ok except cclient doesn't have support for them... Basically the problem is that the only reasonably well performing format in cclient is mbx but it: 1. doesn't allow dual use mailboxes (yes, I'm one of these strange people) 2. is a binary format with all corresponding problems Having a well-behaving mh driver or a possibility to use an optional index for mbox (as all non-toy programs using this format do) would be great. It's a pity that neither is apparently going to happen. Regards, VZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
