-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/08 15:54, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:00:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/27/08 15:27, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > >>> Would using mbox make it any better? >> Depends on your definition of "better". uw-imapd and (maybe) >> Dovecot support mbox-backed-IMAP, so maybe that's the route you >> should take. > > uw-imapd supports mbox and an improved folder-in-a-file format called > mbx.
And when you need to delete an email from the middle of an huge sequential file? The bottom line is that sequential files are *bad* "huge data" stores for everything except append-only log files. > Dovecot supports both. It also indexes the mbox file (assuming that > it is the only one modifiying it, according to ctime). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.", Mr. Spock -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIQdiAS9HxQb37XmcRAp1vAJ0fPT361riMbqTfXSMQmy7OSmzSbwCcC73c teuCJ7A6XzfB6w37hR2VM2g= =h6qh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
