On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some > disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible > modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at the > beginning of a line. MUAs like mutt also save the user's mail folders in the > same problematic format.
I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the mbox format is that every byte of the file must be read to extract headers of the messages .. i.e. display a list of the messages without necessarily showing any data. Does maildir employ a summarization technique or must an MUA open every single file to extract the mailbox headers?