Eudora Replacement

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

Doug Sweetser wrote, On 10/13/2004 07:20 AM:
> Hello:
> 
> Another important factor in the long term success of Unix is the
> ineroperability of tools.  Although I use mh primarily, I can also use
> exmh, sylpheed, and squirrelmail (I regularly use the last two).  The
> underlying data structure is the same, individual files.
> 
> As I only barely understand it, the mbox format was developed by
> sys admins who didn't want so many small files around for each
> user.  Do evolution, thunderbird, and kmail give you a choice about
> how mail gets stored: individual files, mbox, or uniq format?  I know
> that sylpheed will allow either individual files or mbox, which is the
> best answer.

Keep in mind that if you're using IMAP, it's out of the hands of the MUA, and 
they are on the server in whatever format the IMAP server uses.

mbox format is often used because most filesystems do better at fewer larger 
files than they do many smaller files.  And with almost any filesystem, it 
will take up less disk space, and fewer inodes.

That being said, the next time I have lots of free time (read: the next time 
I'm unemployed), I want to switch from uw-imap to another IMAP server that 
uses individual files, because I tend to do things like grep for messages a 
lot.  And I've hated uw-imap for a long time now.

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