On 2012-11-29 15:30:47 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 15:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Now, I would say that in general, the wasted space is small compared > > to large attachments. And if you have only text and care about disk > > space, you should consider a compressed format, not "pure mbox". > Well it's not that small: > http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2012-October/069130.html
So, around 10% on this example. Not really significant. If these 10% are a problem, I would also consider other means, such as compressing the mailbox (one can gain 50% or more) and/or removing "useless" headers. > > This depends. I index my archive mailbox with mairix, and with mairix, > > it is better to use maildir as a search result is built with symlinks > > instead of copying the individual mail messages. > Do these tools (mairix, notmuch, etc.) also help with real full text > search? I just though they'd index some stuff. If by real full text, you mean a sequence of words, a solution is to search one or two meaningful words with mairix (this should be very fast), then do a full search on the resulting mailbox (which should be small enough). This might also be scripted... -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121129150527.gg5...@xvii.vinc17.org