Thanks for the replies all of you. It has a little to do with Gentoo <G>.
As I set up my system - Gento - I am trying to find out what is used by
who and why so I can make some decisions on how to do it. Mbox vs maildir
is one of those things.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 12:43 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and
cons of each.
Thanks.
I think maildir is better for handling small files, and maildir stores
each mail in seperate files, while Mbox stores them in one, so if
anything bad happens to your mails, you won't lose all in maildir case.
Think of a mbox with thousands of messages totalling many Gig's. to get
to the most recent message you need to open one file and read through
those gigs, to get to the last one. All of the file has to be loaded to
memory. mbox chokes on big mail folders. maildir is more efficient in
that situation.
Anyway there are plenty of analyses of the differences between the two
and their comparative strengths and weaknesses. google will help. This
has damn all to do with gentoo.
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