From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 30 20:25:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6193016B16B for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB8543D66 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:25:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k4UKOsVq074125 ; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:24:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 168 Received: from galois2.math.jussieu.fr (galois2.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.117]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k4UKOrNo093729 ; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:24:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from galois2.math.jussieu.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by galois2.math.jussieu.fr (8.12.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k4UKOrAg002009 ; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:24:53 +0200 Received: (from jas@localhost) by galois2.math.jussieu.fr (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k4UKOqUn002008; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:24:52 +0200 Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 22:24:52 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Noah Message-ID: <20060530202452.GE20862@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060528224917.M5250@enabled.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060528224917.M5250@enabled.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Score: -1.44 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Tue, 30 May 2006 22:24:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1499/Mon May 29 22:35:17 2006 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 447CAA16.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: difference between mbox and maildir? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:25:33 -0000 Le 28/05/2006 à 14:50:05-0800, Noah a écrit > > Hi there, > > might somebody send me to a website that explains the differnce between mbox > and maildir? Or maybe you can just explain the differences in a response. > mbox --> one file for all message Maildir --> One file for each message Advantage : mbox --> You can use old commande like «mail» to read you mail and...I search... Maildir -> Very scalable. -> Fast Disavantage : mbox --> with big mbox every access (by qpopper or other mail deamon) need to open the file, and close. This need many time. --> If there are some problem during the open/close time the all mbox is corrupt. Maildir -> You can not use «mail» command. Conclusion : If you don't have mail server and you want to install one --> Use maildir If you have old mail server using mbox --> Think to swap to maildir. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Tue May 30 22:20:06 CEST 2006