18 Dec
2015
18 Dec
'15
12:34 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
On 12/14/2015 01:36 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well deleting a message requires deleting a file, not rewriting the entire mbox after that message, so Maildir is a good idea.
My first exposure to Maildir was via Qmail. I thought it was a better way to handle lots of email than sticking everything in a single file that needs to keep updated as you read and delete messages. Makes you wonder why someone thought it was a good idea to just drop all email in to a single file in the first place.
A lot less inodes, and older filesystems didn't like large directories. -- Len Sorensen