On 05-Nov-05 MJ Ray wrote:
Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com
What's so bad about maildir? [...]
Splattering one mailbox across three directories and N files seems pretty wasteful and is a bit of a pain to process. sed, mboxgrep and other tools work very fast with mbox...
I am not familiar with mh though.
It's file-per-mail in one directory.
But you can have several directories, and sub-directories too. Each file's name is a number (at any rate as implemented in my MUA, XFMail). It does make searching mail content very straightforward: a 'grep -l [-r] ..." and you get a list of matching files.
(I have 84222 files in 624 directories and subdirectories.)
Best wishes, Ted.
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