Mark Crispin wrote: > > I don't think that it would be a good idea for c-client to attempt to > defragment. It is a time-consuming process, and an unsafe one. But I > would consider building a manual defragmentation tool which would be > as close to safe with c-client programs (imapd, ipop3d, Pine, etc.) as > possible if the community considers it to be worthwhile.
I would vote for this and I would use this. In particular, I would imagine a periodic process that * See if there is contiguous space available to defragmentation on the system (and how big?) * finds "large" folders (especially INBOXES) * Sees if they are fragmented * If they are "sufficiently fragmented", defragment This would help performance somewhat for people to keep large inboxes -- until they can be taught the pleasures of small inboxes. So, if such a tool was to be developed, I would love it if, in addition to actually defragmenting a mbx-formatted folder, it could: * Tell how how fragmented the folder file is in the first place * Tell you about contiguous space available for defragmenting so that the controlling script could decide if it makes sense to bother defragmenting the folder. Best, -Erik Kangas LuxSci.com _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
