On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote: > On 12/14/2015 01:36 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >Well deleting a message requires deleting a file, not rewriting the > >entire mbox after that message, so Maildir is a good idea. > > My first exposure to Maildir was via Qmail. I thought it was a better way to > handle lots of email than sticking everything in a single file that needs to > keep updated as you read and delete messages. Makes you wonder why someone > thought it was a good idea to just drop all email in to a single file in the > first place.
A lot less inodes, and older filesystems didn't like large directories. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
