From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 27 15:55:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB43137B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 15:55:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA48187; Sun, 27 May 2001 15:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B118588.DC5A632F@DougBarton.net> Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 15:54:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Reilly Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison References: <200105252049.NAA13292@usr06.primenet.com> <20010526192516.A2573@gurney.reilly.home> <20010526193723.B2573@gurney.reilly.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reilly wrote: > It is quite concievable that a performance tweak to the IMAP > server could involve a header cache in a relational database of > some sort, and that would certainly contain references to the > individual files, which would then be accessed randomly. You might want to give mbox format a try. imap-uw will use this format if you perform a few tweaks described in the documentation that comes with it. Basically, instead of the mailbox being in plain text it creates a type of database at the top of the file that describes the contents. Makes access much faster for large (> 1k letters) mailboxes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message