On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:30 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > OK, I have curently around 220.000 MAILDIR-Messages of the LKM in > > my Folder on a FileServer which is a Sempron 2200 with 256 MByte. > > Open the Folder with mutt takes around 57 seconds via NFS/100MBit > > Yessss, and if we were paying attention we'd see that I was talking about > doing file operations like... ls, grep, etc. > > > In summary: If you have big mailboxes, like mailinglists, > > you will go better with Maildir or IMAP > > Only if you never, ever intend to touch the database with any normal file > tools. And if that is the case one is better off with a real database instead > of a trumped up one based off the concept of "the filesystem is a database".
????? I "grep -r" my ~/Maildir on a regular basis. Works like a charm. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Liberals are people who can read '1984' and 'Animal Farm' and still think it doesn't mean them." Anonymous Coward
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