On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:38 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:12 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:49 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Well, "redesign" means ... well, redesign. i.e. > > > > > > What sort of re-design? Need any input?? > > > > > > > Why don't you use Maildir instead of mbox for local storage? It scales > > to way more messages, provided you have a decent file system... > > maildir would be nice but it (may) causes some issues when I want to > archive the messages into CD (with mbox I can just save the whole file > and re-use it from the CD, I think).
Either should be ok for that really. > I use XFS as my home-dir so it's supposed to be better for large files > rather than reiserfs (been bitten so.. I"m not going there) Yeah i'm not a fan of reiser's stability. Unless you expunge every 5 minutes, or need to have other clients writing to the mailboxes, mbox scales just fine anyway. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
