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Re: Maildir header cache now supports imap, too



On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:51:59PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> And there we are in the middle of the reasons why I don't like the
> *maildir* header caching idea: Maildir is designed to be an NFS-safe
> mail folder format which actually works without explicit locking
> mechanisms.  Adding database files that require explicit locking
> defeats this (big!) advantage of maildir.

But it makes (repeatedly) opening Maildirs faster in mutt, which defeats
one of the (big!) disadvantages of reading Maildirs in mutt.

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