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The Friday 2007-12-21 at 21:27 +1030, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Friday 21 December 2007 16:06:47 Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 20 December 2007 09:15:15 pm Rodney Baker wrote:
Notwithstanding the fact that Beagle created performance issues on your
system, have you considered converting from MBox to Maildir format for
your mail? This will increase performance both in terms of reading mail
and also probably for Beagle (which probably tried to load your entire
MBox file into memory in order to index your mail). It doesn't have to do
that with Maildir since each mail is a separate file.
He (Gary) is using Thunderbird, which I believe does not support maildir
local folders.
Plus, there is no reason to load the entire mbox in memory.
Can you believe that I converted maildirs to mbox just to increase
performace of KMail. Before I had to wait for hours until my huge Mail
directory is imported in new installation, seconds to open
[email protected] folder and using Kmail wasn't joy.
interesting...
OK, I stand corrected. I found the opposite - using mbox it was much slower
and less reliable, but that could be due to the fact that I was running
dovecot IMAP locally so that I can access my email from different machines.
The other advantage to maildirs as opposed to mbox (at least as I see it) is
that if the mbox file becomes corrupt (for whatever reason), you can lose the
lot, whereas with maildirs you lose only the affected email(s).
That's the theory, but I have lots of large mboxes and I never lost one.
Anyway, this is getting OT. I guess the lesson is YMMV depending on your
installation and needs.
Right :-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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