On 10/08/10 14:49, Brett Parker wrote:
On 10 Aug 12:55, Chris G wrote:
Of course I'm talking mbox! :-)
It's *so* much faster and more convenient in every way than maildir that there is absolutely no way I'm going back to maildir. I used maildir for a year or so until recently when I switched back, the difference in 'user feel' is huge.
Erm, until you want to delete that mail in the middle of the mbox... or archive off the previous month... or have 2 clients both trying to access the same mbox... or - mbox is dead, a decent filesystem gives good performance on Maildir, and Maildir mitigates a lot of the problems that mbox suffers - I'd not like to see any ISP using mbox as the backing store for e-mail, it's just not efficient.
In my experience (using Thunderbird via Dovecot's IMAP, and mbox format), if you delete a message in the middle of the mbox file, it simply gets flagged as deleted. It's only actually removed if you "compress" the file - i.e rewrite without the deletions.
Regards Steve