On Sun, 27 May 2001, Doug Barton wrote:
> Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
> > It is quite concievable that a performance tweak to the IMAP
> > server could involve a header cache in a relational database of
> > some sort, and that would certainly contain references to the
> > individual files, which would then be accessed randomly.
>
> You might want to give mbox format a try. imap-uw will use this
> format if you perform a few tweaks described in the documentation that
> comes with it. Basically, instead of the mailbox being in plain text
> it creates a type of database at the top of the file that describes
> the contents. Makes access much faster for large (> 1k letters)
> mailboxes.
what you are suggesting sounds like something that Cyrus-IMAP already
done, using Berkeley-DB ... loading up several thousand email's and
sorting them takes no time ...
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