On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:05:39PM +0100, sigi wrote: > Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to > maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :) There *are* advantages to both... Their performance characteristics (and behavior, unfortunately) are different. Maildir is well suited to mail stores kept on NFS, because it avoids locking issues. It is particularly fast at deleting messages amongst a large number of other messages in a mailbox, because it is a single file delete, whereas mbox message deletes generally require the mailbox to be rewritten. On most platforms (i.e. filesystems), mbox typically opens large mailboxes faster (even with header caching enabled, I believe, and usually *much* faster without it), making it a good choice for large archives (up to the maximum file size on your system). Another notable difference is in new mail notification and mailbox switching. Mutt's maildir implementation is better at remembering that you have new mail than its mbox implementation is... The mbox implementation "forgets" that you have unread mail in an mbox folder once you have visited a folder and left it, whereas maildir remembers. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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