Q: Mailbox format

[William Park]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:44:02AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> If you have mainly small emails, then mailbox format is faster due to
> open/close overhead.  It's a tradeoff really.  Perhaps a better format
> would be some kind of database which can have just one large file, but
> have the indexing to help it jump to headers and such.  Could even
> make searching faster by indexing each header field and such.  no such
> standard of course at the moment.

Even better (just dreaming) is to use database filesystem.  Journal
filesystem is just one step in that direction.  Wait... that would be
bad for Oracle and DB2, no?

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