From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 18 7:42:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620E815441 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:42:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA54957; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:42:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:42:31 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Wilko Bulte , Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS In-Reply-To: <383412B5.142F74A3@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: > > > > You don't have to use vile language in public :-) > > > > MH has been storing mail in it's folders like this for years/decades. While > > it might be a little hard on the file system, it works great for the user. > > Works great? Seriously, how long does it take to open a folder with > over a hundred thousand messages? I *do* have some folders like > that. Ouch. Don't do that. The upside of MH and maildir format is that deleting an arbitrary message is much faster. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message