On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:36:53PM +0000, Mark Delany wrote:
[snip]
>
> Do an experiment: run one of those mbox-to-maildir convert programs
> (from www.qmail.org) on your 200MB mailbox - load it into a Maildir
> and aim mutt at it and tell us what happens. Tell us how it compares
> to pine loading it from mbox. Then delete one of the mails and
> exit. Tells us how mutt performs and tell us how pine performs. In
> fact do all your normal user interactions on each mailbox type and
> share your results with us.
That experiment is unfair. mutt handles mbox much faster than pine too.
Compare mbox and maildir either both in pine, or both in mutt.
mutt does show how fast Maildir really is, tho. Note that pop3 for
Maildir is another step faster (way faster, actually) than mutt on
Maildir. qmail-pop3d doesn't read headers, so it only needs the
filenames, which means it flies.
pop3 on maildir is *always* faster than pop3 on mbox, dare I say.
Greetz, Peter.
