Jake Anderson wrote:
> Wouldn't a client generally request all the header information in one
> hit though?

You don't know in advance what headers are requested by a client. Squirrelmail
fetches other headers than thunderbird which fetches other fields than outlook,
etc, etc...

Also, the headercache is used for IMAP SEARCH.

> It seems to me it might well be faster to keep it all on one block
> rather than try and join a whole bunch of teensy bits of information
> together.

So install dbmail-2.0 then :-)

> Basically for a small file the seek time is more important than the file
> size. For a larger file seek time is less important.
> That's my thoughts anyway.




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