On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Luc Brouard wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:50:10 +0000 > From: Luc Brouard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] UW imap & qmail > > Jonathan Angliss wrote: > > 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. > >From FAQ (2002 Oct 29) on US_IMAP site. ...
6.9 Why don't you support the maildir format? We can't do a better job than the maildir fan community has done with their mail dir drivers. Similarly, if the maildir fan community provides the maildir driver , they take on the responsibility for answering maildir-specific support questio ns. This is as it should be, and that is why maildir support is left to the mail dir fan community. ... > Jonathan, > > 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 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. > > > Cheers > > Luc > Sincerely, William Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer CyberStrategies, Inc ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
