Re: [Evolution-hackers] Moving from the single mbox file format for the local folders

[Patrick Ohly <patrick ohly gmx de>]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 15:09 -0500, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 01:16 +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> > > * Not able to create subfolders under INBOX -
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536240 .
> > I hadn't noticed the above, so I guess it's a non-issue for me
> > 
> > What is the second issue?
> Sorry missed to mention it here, with maildir we would need to rename
> files for unread/read flag changes which can be avoided in the later
> approach.

So you expect renaming a file to be slower than rewriting the whole file
content? Somehow my gut feeling says that it will be the other way
around. But I don't have hard data, of course.

I definitely won't switch away from maildir as my format of choice
because it integrates nicely with offlineimap.

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