On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:38:55PM -0000, Lorens Kockum wrote:
> On the qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On the other hand, I have thought maildir a _good_ folder format; it
>
> It is deathly slow on big folders. When you want to get the
> subject of all the mails, for example, it still has to open and
> read every single mail. I think a seperate index file would be
> a good idea, shouldn't be too hard to do correctly.
That would require locking, which goes against the Maildir-philosophy.
Greetz, Peter.
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Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
