Re: Maildir or mbox?
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- Subject: Re: Maildir or mbox?
- From: Corsair <chris.corsair@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:43:43 +0800
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On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> * 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. Otherwise maildir is the choice as it
> has no concurrency issues.
I guess this also concerns the filesystem in use. Though not tested
myself, I think maildir is more suitable on a ReisorFS (for instance)
partition than on an EXT3 one. Because one is dealing with thousands
of small files here, which is a nightmare to many FS.
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