>i think that rcvstore would also become very slow, unless we're caching >the next message number rather than discovering it every time.
Yeah, and we'd have to be super careful about that. >huge mboxes are one of the reasons i eventually expect to have to >abandon Maildir. what i wish i had is a set of MH-like utilities that >hid the backend storage from me but allowed me shell-like simplicity and >access to my folders and messages (and MIME parts). sadly, that'll be >new work, which i don't have time for, and which won't relate to MH at all. Right, I think that people forget Maildir was not designed as a mail _folder_ but instead as a mail _drop_ (a place where you store mail to retrieve it). Yes, Dovecot uses it as a mail store, but I believe it does a lot of caching. One of my plans for redoing the internal API is to support different backends; the three obvious candidates right now are MH, Maildir, and IMAP. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers