From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] maildir history
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 10:06:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E6244635-39C7-4AA1-B871-E06783FAE324@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSF3XMD+HDSL6PO0nXx9PhJG55zoHnjr4UAhqjUQG2EH1Bm6Q@mail.gmail.com>
On February 6, 2021 9:15:26 AM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>9front upas is all based on erik's nupas code.
>
>afterwards it got modified a lot, so much that it might be a rewrite
>would have been faster.
>
>steve: not sure i get your specific question: are you asking if mdir
>is better than mbox?
>if yes, then i would agree that without more tooling around it,
>without indexes around it, our mdir format is still not a very
>accessible mail archive, but if you make your own indexes and some
>tooling i think it's much easier based on mdir than on mbox where you
>would mostly need to do byte-wise seek offsets as opposed to
>file-granular read operations when you want to access a mail.
>
read the mail chapter in UNIX-HATERS, and read about why maildir was created. all of these problems are as old as e-mail.
sl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-08 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-06 11:10 Steve Simon
2021-02-06 11:35 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-06 14:15 ` hiro
2021-02-06 14:38 ` hiro
2021-02-06 15:06 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2021-02-06 15:18 ` hiro
2021-02-06 21:36 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-06 22:25 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-06 22:46 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-07 0:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-07 0:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-07 0:21 ` hiro
2021-02-09 10:37 ` Steve Simon
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