On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:27:59PM -0500, Sam wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2000, (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.
>
> Or, you need an intelligent IMAP client. Pine, for example, never asks
> for all the headers at the same time. It will only ask for headers for 20
> messages at a time, only as many as necessary to show the current section
> of the folder index.
The same intelligence could be applied to Maildir, obviously.
But since most MUAs like to sort messages for you, they have to read them
all anyway...
Greetz, Peter.
--
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.'
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