JD Runyan wrote: > Gregory Ruiz-Ade wrote: > > >So, one can argue that you get more choice with Maildirs. > > There is a cost for that choice. As you state below, there is no > indexing. To be competitive in with the big boys, you must be able to > speed things up.
There is no reason why you cannot use a tool to index your maildirs and have your client use that. This seems to be what Cyrus does. Now, I have not looked at what Cyrus really does to determine if it is as bulletproof as it is claimed, so I simply do not know. I suspect that if it is (save the index - which can be recreated upon corruption[1]), then it is using a Maildir-style system anyway[2]. [1] Does Cyrus automatically rebuild that index, or does it take operator inervention? What if that index is purged? [2] One message in a file in a directory doth not a Maildir be, That is only one small part. It is, however, the most obvious part. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
