Dominik Zyla wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:14:57AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:06 +0100, Dominik Zyla wrote:
<SNIP>
>> > Mbox is much more slower during
>> > operations on it. It's because it's operate on single file,
>>
>> Correct, but who cares? If the server provides high-performance to the
>> mailbox... why care? Message format storage wars are silly.
>
> I agree it's silly. But try to run dozens of maildirs and the same
> number of mailboxes on the same kind of server. Mboxes would be
> bottleneck of the entire mail system.
And then there's the problem when your mailtool screws up the formatting
of the mbox file....
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