On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 14:54 +1030, Dr Mark H Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to work out how to make evolution (2.24.2) > use the maildir format by default instead of mbox. I > can't seem to tell it to do this. > > Does evolution support maildir? I thought it did. > > The reason I am trying to move to maildir is that I have > a large number of stored emails (which I don't want > to delete) and mbox seems not to handle this situation > well.
Are you having some specific problem? > My understanding is that maildir handles this > much better. That's a matter of opinion. Maildir was designed to permit multiple concurrent updates of a mailbox without locking, and is thus suitable for mail stores kept on a fileserver (e.g. NFS). For local mailboxes this aspect shouldn't matter. It also follows the one-message-per-file model rather than mbox's one-folder-per-file so there may be performance differences, but it's not a simple case of one always being better than the other. > People's thoughts? Maildir was discussed in the last few days on this list. Take a look at the archives (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/). poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
