Jeremy Hughes wrote (Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:47:02 +0000): > Tobias Jung (11/11/10, 13:32) said: > >> Nowadays Apple Mail saves each _message_ as a single file, MBOX was >> dropped with the Tiger version. > > You're right... > > ... and yet searching seems to be very fast (but with fewer options than > PowerMail, unless I'm missing something).
I agree – searching seems quite fast in Apple Mail, but I can't say that for sure, since I've tested this with a few hundred of messages in Mail while I currently have 35,000+ messages stored in PowerMail. So I really don't know of Apple Mail _really_ is fast. > I'm not sure whats so wrong with having thousands of message files - > most application packages (e.g. Safari) contain thousands of resource files. Well, I don't know what's wrong with it either (at least if it doesn't slow down searching drastically). But: The classic Eudora also used the "one file for each mailbox" approach, and when Infinity Data Systems, the makers of MailForge (the self-proclaimed Eudora successor) announced that they wanted to use single files for the messages, lots of users of the corresponding forum said that they hated this idea. IDS then dropped that approach in favor of using one database for each mailbox. So I merely guessed that there might be people here who don't like thousands of message files, too. Kind regards, Tobias Jung
