[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
True. Then again, many mbox clients are also deathly slow--around 1,000
messages, VM under emacs becomes intolerable (it's part of why I switched
to MH; bad or not, it scaled better).
> > 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.
It would not require locking unless messages are archived asynchronously,
which they need not be.
The maildir philosophy is for _safe spooling_. Lorens is replying to
my post about _efficient archival_.
Len.
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