So sprach »Benjamin Michotte« am 2002-01-20 um 19:33:10 +0100 : > > What are the benefits of using one type over the other? > opening a mbox with ± 7000 mails : less than 10 seconds. > opening the same in Maildir : 3 minutes...
With mutt, I get the same kind of results. However, other MUAs behave differently. For instance, when I did the testing, Evolution opened the same Maildir way faster than it handled the mbox file (which contained the same messages). mutt seems to be *extremely* optimized for mbox. FWIW, I just did some testing using mutt 1.3.25i on my Athlon 800 MHz, 786 MB RAM, and a IBM DDRS-39130W SCSI UW hard drive running reiserfs. The Maildir/mbox I tested, had 84.533 messages and about 321 MB. Opening the mbox beast took 2:53 minutes, while opening the same converted to Maildir (with mutt) took more than 25 minutes. Go figure... Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 6 days 1 hour 14 minutes
