Greets!
Preface: with the mbox format, a message is appended at the end of a
LONG text file ... reading a message means finding the message at the
end of this LONG text file, right? So, with maildir, 2 important
directories exist: cur and new ... so if a new message arrives in a
maildir, it is in the "new" directory - once it is read, it is
transferred to the "cur" directory where it is stored as a separate file
...
Body: with these understandings, it would make sense to me that for a
person using IMAP, maildir would be an ideal format to use ... a message
comes into the Inbox, Messenger filters the message based on the header
into a folder on the IMAP server (also a maildir) and there it lands in
the "new" directory (right?) ... so the user hits "Next" to go to the
next unread message that Messenger knows of, Messenger takes you to the
folder it filtered the mail into and opens the new message ... ideally,
this take very, very little time ... because neither Messenger nor the
IMAP server need to read through an mbox-style text file to find the
message, its simply the first message in the "new" directory ... or not?
The Point: I'm not noticing a considerable speed increase ... moreover,
I'm not noticing there being no corrolation between the number of
messages in a folder and the time it takes to access a new message (this
ought to be constant, right ... if you have 50 message or 2500 messages
in that folder shouldn't matter, right?) ...
What's going on here that I'm missing and was I crazy to transfer my
mail systems from mbox to maildir??
Regards,
Brice Ruth
