Re: [OT] Re: [Evolution] strategies for handling lots of mail

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:38 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:12 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:49 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > > Well, "redesign" means ... well, redesign.   i.e. 
> > >
> > > What sort of re-design? Need any input??
> >
> > Why don't you use Maildir instead of mbox for local storage?  It scales
> > to way more messages, provided you have a decent file system...
>
> maildir would be nice but it (may) causes some issues when I want to
> archive the messages into CD (with mbox I can just save the whole file
> and re-use it from the CD, I think). 

Either should be ok for that really.

> I use XFS as my home-dir so it's supposed to be better for large files
> rather than reiserfs (been bitten so.. I"m not going there)

Yeah i'm not a fan of reiser's stability.

Unless you expunge every 5 minutes, or need to have other clients
writing to the mailboxes, mbox scales just fine anyway.