I have been playing with MIX following Mark's comments; it would address some of the system backup concerns besides being faster.
I see that MIX starts a new mailbox file after 1Mb, so that a new inbox would tend to have this as a maximum file size. However, if I migrate an existing 100Mb folder, it becomes a single 100Mb MIX file. (though new mail appended to it goes in a new file). Also, if (in Pine, anyway) a large number of messages are selected from a mailbox and moved to a new one, the new one is created as a single large file - even if the old mailbox had many small files. (I tend to batch up the previous year's worth of messages like this when spring cleaning). So even if I wrote a tool to convert existing boxes in chunks, we could still end up with some large mailboxes. Admittedly, the backup problem is with inboxes that must be copied in entirety if a single flag is changed - not so likely with "pre-1995 mail". I gather that there is a technical reason for this, but it does seem to detract from the "small file" principle. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
