Re: [Evolution] using maildir format

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 14:54 +1030, Dr Mark H Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to work out how to make evolution (2.24.2)
> use the maildir format by default instead of mbox.  I
> can't seem to tell it to do this.
>
> Does evolution support maildir?  I thought it did.
>
> The reason I am trying to move to maildir is that I have
> a large number of stored emails (which I don't want
> to delete) and mbox seems not to handle this situation
> well.

Are you having some specific problem?

> My understanding is that maildir handles this
> much better.

That's a matter of opinion. Maildir was designed to permit multiple
concurrent updates of a mailbox without locking, and is thus suitable
for mail stores kept on a fileserver (e.g. NFS). For local mailboxes
this aspect shouldn't matter. It also follows the one-message-per-file
model rather than mbox's one-folder-per-file so there may be performance
differences, but it's not a simple case of one always being better than
the other.

> People's thoughts?

Maildir was discussed in the last few days on this list. Take a look at
the archives (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/).

poc