Hello Luc, On Monday, January 13, 2003, Luc Brouard wrote... >>> What it is said in the FAQ is not that using Maildir is >>> "sacrificing the performance & robustness and other things..." for >>> every implementation ...
>> Could it be that they mean patching UW-IMAP to support Maildir is >> sacrificing performance and robustness? As I said, I've found >> Maildir access to be a lot quicker than mbox style files that >> UW-IMAP uses. > I just made this point because I thought there was confusion on > this. From the original mail that is what I understood. ie. UW-IMAP > patched to work with maildir will not be as fast as UW-IMAP working > with mbox. And it certainely does not mean that courier-imap is > slower. I think this may have been the point where we were crossing wires. >From the statement, I read that all Maildir use was sacrificing performance, and robustness, but realised earlier that you could have meant a patched UW. > I am using courier-imap by the way and for my use it is better than > uw-imap mbox. I think Maildir is better than Maildir for my use ... > but I think that mbox style mailstore is great to backup things you > will not look at it often (ie. ml archives for examples). As it is > not my use (I delete every mail from the ml I'm on, except if the > mail is particulary helpful or delves onto something I would like to > work later on). Because with Maildir, except on reiserfs, you could > go out of inodes. I've yet to run into the lack of inode issue... I, in fact, have a large number or mails, I've not checked the count in a while, but last time one particular mail folder had 21,000 emails in (or there abouts). I still fine Maildir a lot faster access than mbox based on a similar folder size. -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
