Re: best mailbox format?

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 02/14/2004 07:07:10 AM, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Am 2004-02-14 00:28:21 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> 
>> I have a maildir and an essentially identical mbox, both with  
>> over 3000 messages (~11Mb in the mbox format), and with Balsa  
>> from cvs HEAD, both open in 2-3 seconds (the second time,  
>> after the disk buffers are loaded)--can't really tell which is  
>> faster.
> 
> For me it seems that maildir is faster than mbox.  So now I use  
> only maildir now.
> 
> Balsa was a bit buggy about a half a year ago, so I don't try  
> mbox anymore.

Hi Martin!

It's been a long, slow job, but the mbox backend in cvs now seems  
robust, and gives reasonable performance.

Peter