[CentOS] mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

On 2014-04-15, Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As some have noted, modern filesystems are better at this than ones such as ext2.
> However, even in the best of cases, there are still situations where maildirs with a lot of messages
> are awkward to handle.  Specifically, if you're trying to find specific messages based on criteria that
> are not easily discernable from the inode, for example, things with attachments.

This will be bad with an mbox mailbox too.  Actually it'll be worse,
because it'll be too hard to tell which message the grep hits.

--keith


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