Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:57:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105271856260.41214-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3B118588.DC5A632F@DougBarton.net>
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On Sun, 27 May 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > 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. what you are suggesting sounds like something that Cyrus-IMAP already done, using Berkeley-DB ... loading up several thousand email's and sorting them takes no time ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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