I think there was previous discussion about using maildir. There's lots of discussion (bordering on religious wars) around about maildir vs. mbox. My two cents: mbox is very slow for large (5000+ messages) folders, and file corruption will corrupt whole folders instead of a single message. Also, the trend in filesystem optimization is in favor of small files.
No reason not to implement both, especially given that mbox is relatively easy, but I think maildir is more robust.
Ajit
Serge Knystautas wrote:
Danny/Noel,
Did you say you had spoken with an author of an mbox java implementation?
I checked out EyeBrowse which has a read-only implementation of mbox files, and found a decent description of mbox (http://email.about.com/library/weekly/aa111300a.htm), and with a regex library in James, this looks really easy. Actually looking over eyebrowse's mbox parser (all of 313 lines), I don't know if it wouldn't just be faster to write it ourself.
Anyway, I don't want to reinvent the wheel if someone's already going to work on this, but seems like I can throw this together for 3.0 head without much work.
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