Re: best mailbox format?

[Martin Klaffenboeck <martin klaffenboeck gmx at>]

Am 14.02.2004 22:39:45 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> 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.

Ok, I will belive you at this point.  I will not try it, because I feel  
well with maildir at the moment.

Martin