I am perenially amused by performance complaints where there is probably no
performance problem.
You ask if there is an improvement?
How can you really know. Maybe the bottleneck is the IP transfer between
the server and you, and when it came down to it, the spooled Imap was
running faster than your data bandwidth. So, you don't see any difference.
When something goes so fast that you blink and its done, is there any
performance increase that will make it seem faster?
Me to coworker: "Why do you have all this code here? You can do it more
simply this other way."
coworker: "Its faster this way."
Me: "It runs at the most, once every hour, for less than five seconds the
slow way. How will its speed affect anything?"
coworker: "ummm... I dunno."
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brice Ruth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 9:11 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: advantages of maildir
>
>
> Greets!
>
> Preface: with the mbox format, a message is appended at the end of a
> LONG text file ... reading a message means finding the message at the
> end of this LONG text file, right? So, with maildir, 2 important
> directories exist: cur and new ... so if a new message arrives in a
> maildir, it is in the "new" directory - once it is read, it is
> transferred to the "cur" directory where it is stored as a
> separate file
> ...
>
> Body: with these understandings, it would make sense to me that for a
> person using IMAP, maildir would be an ideal format to use
> ... a message
> comes into the Inbox, Messenger filters the message based on
> the header
> into a folder on the IMAP server (also a maildir) and there
> it lands in
> the "new" directory (right?) ... so the user hits "Next" to go to the
> next unread message that Messenger knows of, Messenger takes
> you to the
> folder it filtered the mail into and opens the new message
> ... ideally,
> this take very, very little time ... because neither Messenger nor the
> IMAP server need to read through an mbox-style text file to find the
> message, its simply the first message in the "new" directory
> ... or not?
>
> The Point: I'm not noticing a considerable speed increase ...
> moreover,
> I'm not noticing there being no corrolation between the number of
> messages in a folder and the time it takes to access a new
> message (this
> ought to be constant, right ... if you have 50 message or
> 2500 messages
> in that folder shouldn't matter, right?) ...
>
> What's going on here that I'm missing and was I crazy to transfer my
> mail systems from mbox to maildir??
>
> Regards,
> Brice Ruth
>
