On 2/22/08, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>>  Can we at least use a hashed mail directory solution that doesn't
>>  have massive scalability problems?
>
>  For the digests it probably doesn't matter because they'll never get
>  that big.  I'm still planning on making this change for the queue
>  directories (though I haven't yet).

I thought we were talking about replacing the 7th edition mbox file 
format for the raw or the similar mbox-like format for the cooked 
archives.  Using some sort of a hashed directory structure would 
allow a lot more flexibility in terms of going in and deleting or 
editing messages in the archive, along with many other benefits it 
might bring.

However, if you imagine python-list with hundreds of thousands of 
messages in the archive, there's just no way that could possibly 
scale with Maildir, Maildir+, or any other solution that does not 
enforce a good hashed directory scheme that is kept invisible to the 
higher-level applications.

-- 
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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