Re: mailutils

[xystrus]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:49:09PM +0000, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> xystrus <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Well, we discussed this at length on the mutt users list. 
> > Maildir is not without its own problems...  It takes 
> > substantially longer to open and index a Maildir/MH folder 
> > than it does to do the same for a MBOX folder.  
> 
> This is an interesting paper about maildir:
> 
> http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/

Woah Nellie!  I just had a look at this, and we're not really 
comparing mbox to Maildir, we're comparing Courier IMAP to 
UW-IMAP.  

I've yet to meet a sysadmin who's managed a UW-IMAP server who
did not also think that its performance sucked.  I don't think
this has anything to do with mbox vs. Maildir, but entirely to
do with UW's implementation.  If I felt like digging through the
archives of mutt-users, I could post benchmarks that paint a
very different picture.

But I don't.  If you're curious, feel free.  See the mailing list
section at www.mutt.org.  The archives are linked in there...