[imp] mbox-vs-maildir

[Joseph Brennan]

Compare U Wash with mbox format to U Wash with mbx format.  Night and day.
It's well known that the mbox format is slow.

Joseph Brennan                           postmaster@columbia.edu
Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)





--On Friday, December 21, 2001 13:24 -0500 Mike Coughlan <mcoughlan@gothambroadband.com> wrote:

> We just moved off of UW IMAP and on to courier, and the performance is
> orders of magnitude better, hurray.
> 
> Based on past IMP list threads, I recommend that IMP offer a link to these
> stats in the upcoming docs, and perhaps a soft recommendation not to use the
> mbox format if performance is expected to be an issue. Mail conversion after
> the fact is quite painful. Thanks all.
> 
> http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
> 
> 
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