Serge, Here's the message/thread I remember from Alexander Zhukov one of (?) the authors of Javamaildir.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05037.html Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 6:23 PM > To: James Developers List > Subject: Re: MBox format > > > Ajit George wrote: > > Serge - > > > > 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. > > Ah ok, yeah maildir looks cool, but I'm not sure how you'd > implement it > since you're supposed to be changing files modified times. > Maybe I read > the spec wrong. > > But anyway, yeah if that talk was about maildir, then yeah > I'm happy to > do this work for mbox. Like you said, it's not the best thing out > there, but that's ok... hopefully with some tools in the future James > will make it that much easier to move between these repository > implementations. > > -- > Serge Knystautas > Loki Technologies > http://www.lokitech.com/ > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:james-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
