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

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:48 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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 think maildir may be an issue for that since  burning like 70k of
messages from Fedora Mail list would be overkill for 1 directory
structure. (No I don't organise it by date, only by mail list)

> > 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.

I expunge every so often. Meaning when I go to sleep at night and
decides to clean up.

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