Alex Baer wrote:
Re-creation of index files was unfortunately not done instantly in earlier versions. For large mbox files it takes ages. The whole concept slows down actions, such as copying 500 messages from one folder to another one significantly. It takes so long, at times, that I guess, the index is recreated for every single message. May I expect that Seamonkey has become a bit smarter here in recent incarnations?
Indexing and copying operations will be slower with mdir. For mbox, only a single file per folder must be indexed. With mdir, each message is a file, so in your 500 message folder example, there would be 500 file opens and closes. That's a heck of a lot more overhead. Same for the copy. 1000 opens and closes. Mbox should be much faster for such things. In my mind, the advantage for mdir is with incremental backups, like Apple Time Machine and search mechanisms like Spotlight. Receiving a new message means that only that new file need be backed up, instead of the whole folder's worth of data. Presenting messages to Spotlight is hard in the many messages/file mbox format. -- Rich (Pull thorn from address to e-mail me.) SeaMonkey - Surfing the net has never been so suite! _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
