| From: Ron / BCLUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I've seen mbox files get corrupted (all mailbox | messages in one file, and a line like "From: " is the message delimiter. | Terrible!)
I don't remember seeing that corruption in the last few decades of using mbox. The horrors of in-band signalling are well known -- maybe the software I use reflects that knowledge. | I've recently switched to using Maildir format (server *and* Thunderbird). | One message per file. You mentioned that you were running out of space on your system. If a lot of that space is mail messages, I would bet that Maildir is costing you a lot of it. Each message is taking a multiple of the allocation unit size (1KB? 4KB?) and a large part of that is likely unused (the tail of the last unit). My intuition would be that since mail messages are usually short, and the distribution of sizes isn't uniform, you are probably using at least 25% more disk space with Maildir. But intuition is surprisingly bad for computer things. With Thunderbird conversions, you could easily measure this for a real-world example --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
