On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:20:15 -0500, Scott G. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The difference is file structure. Pine uses the "maildir" format (feel > free to correct me if I'm wrong), and Thunderbird uses the "mbox" format, > but with subdirectories named with a .sbd extension.
You are wrong. Pine does *not* use the maildir format, at least not by default. Pine can use either the mbox format (which it does by default) or the higher performance MBX format. Just as a side note, the TriLUG server currently uses the MBX format. The main difference between it and mbox are as follows: mbox stores the files in unix text format with \n for newlines, mbx stores the files in the same format they're sent over the network in which is with \r\n as newlines so it doesn't have to convert messages every time they're requested. In addition, mbx has an index at the beginning of the file that gives message offsets while mbox has no such concept so to find a message you have to do a linear search each time. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=8127171 (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
