Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 15:54:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <3B118588.DC5A632F@DougBarton.net> References: <200105252049.NAA13292@usr06.primenet.com> <20010526192516.A2573@gurney.reilly.home> <20010526193723.B2573@gurney.reilly.home>
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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
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