On Friday 06 Jun 2003 8:14 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Freitag, 6. Juni 2003 21:04 schrieb Anne Wilson: > > My dally with evo made me aware that I had a mixture of maildir > > and mbox for my mail - obviously not ideal - so I set out to > > convert to one. I chose mbox, because it is transparent. I know > > that if I could not use kmail I can open one of my archive > > folders in a text editor and do a search to find anything I need. > > I like the comfort factor that gives me. > > > > I have heard it said, though, that mbox if bad, and maildir is > > good. Why? Are there any overriding reasons for going that way? > > > > Anne > > Hmm at least your argument for mbox isn't really valid. Maildir is > too plain text and directories.
But searching 10,000 archived messages individually for a particular phrase is not a good idea. One large file with the messages concatenated is much easier, if slow. > Don't know which one is better. > Maybe this is interesting for you (not really;)) > > http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/#theend > Having read that, I think it's a matter of 'you pays your money and you takes your choice' - which is fine by me. There doesn't seem to be any strong reason to override personal preference. Thanks, Steffen Anne
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