Re: Advantages/disadvantages of various mbox types
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:16:05PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>
> The primary benefits of Maildir over mbox is concurrent access,
> especially for delivery, and the speed of making changes (e.g. deleting
> a random message) because only one file is affected. The primary benefit
> of mbox over Maildir is space-efficiency (as you've discovered) and
> header-reading speed (because the OS doesn't have all the overhead of
> additional open()'s).
>
For me one of the advantages of mbox is the simplicity of the file and
directory naming and the ease of searching (using grep for example).
--
Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."