Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Len Budney writes:
> > FWIW, Dan once argued that maildirs are good as spools, but not great as
> > folders.
Misquote alert! My fault! Dan didn't say that maildirs are "not great
as folders". I don't have the exact quote, but what he said was that
maildir was never intended as a format for message archival. I don't
think Dan defined "archival", but I believe he meant long-term storage,
with maildir as the folder structure for recent messages.
Pardon me for conflating "recent messages" with "spooling"; I badly
overstated what Dan actually said.
> What if you want mail to be deliverable into folders, using extensions?
Maildir is of course the way to go.
As I remember it, Dan was suggesting that an archival format should
save space [and inodes], and allow faster mailbox scanning. The format
he alluded to accomplishes this.
For asynchrony, maildir rules the world. But uses space and inodes, and
scans slowly.
A hybrid solution, involving both, would be highly desirable.
Len.
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