* Derek Martin on Monday, February 02, 2009 at 18:17:14 -0600 > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:05:39PM +0100, sigi wrote: >> Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to >> maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :) > > There *are* advantages to both... Their performance characteristics > (and behavior, unfortunately) are different. Maildir is well suited > to mail stores kept on NFS, because it avoids locking issues. It is > particularly fast at deleting messages amongst a large number of other > messages in a mailbox, because it is a single file delete, whereas > mbox message deletes generally require the mailbox to be rewritten. > On most platforms (i.e. filesystems), mbox typically opens large > mailboxes faster (even with header caching enabled, I believe, and > usually *much* faster without it),
Nope, here on MacOS 10.5.6 HFS+ opening Maildirs with tokyocabinet hcache backend is *much* faster than opening mboxes. Depends a lot on the filesystem -- MacOS 10.4 was slower wrt Maildirs + header cache ... or the header cache implementation has improved since I upgraded ;-) c -- \black\trash movie _C O W B O Y_ _C A N O E_ _C O M A_ Ein deutscher Western/A German Western -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc.html -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc-en.html
