[CentOS] Converting to maildir

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Jan 4 14:57:12 UTC 2011


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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