Re: Maildir or mbox?
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- Subject: Re: Maildir or mbox?
- From: Andrey Zhidenkov <andrey.zhidenkov@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:22:44 +0400
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On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
>
> > I'm using mutt about 6 month. For this time I have about 5000 messages
> > in my mbox folder. What format is preffered for using with many
> > messages? Is Maildir faster? I read in this mailing list that someone
> > stores his mail in the folder, organized by years and month. I think
> > that is very good idea. Is it very difficult to do that?
>
> It depends on how you receive mail. If you use fetchmail (or the like)
> it's unlikely that you modify a folder during fetchmail is running and
> thus mbox likely is a bit faster.
Yes, I'm using fetchmail to get my mail and procmail to sort it.
> Otherwise maildir is the choice as it
> has no concurrency issues.
Thanks, I'll try it.
>
> Sorting into folders can be done using an mbox-hook and 'set move=yes'
> in .muttrc.
Thank you. One more question: can I convert my mbox folder to maildir format?
I can suppose that I can move all my mail into another folder, configure
procmail
to work with maildir and then run procmail again. Is that right solution?
>
> Rocco