On 29.10.2012, at 22.54, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I recently mentioned in several posts, that I'd tended to use mbox > rather than maildir, because you don't loose so much space (due to > always allocating full blocks per maildir file and thus per mail). .. > In the end I probably changed my opinion. > ~7GB of wasted block space for all my mails is actually quite a lot, but > in days of cheap disk space it's acceptable. > And with mbox one has IMHO the major disadvantage that mailservers > (including dovecot) store some meta-data _in_ it (i.e. in the mails > themselves) , which I don't like a lot. > I still think about reports that mbox is much faster with full text > search (which sounds reasonable)... but therefore one needs probably and > database backend anyway.
There is of course mdbox also, which gives the best of both mbox and maildir (and some of its own new annoyances).
