From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 20099 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2021 02:25:18 -0000 Received: from 1ess.inri.net (216.126.196.35) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Feb 2021 02:25:18 -0000 Received: from 5ess.inri.net ([107.191.111.177]) by 1ess; Sat Feb 6 10:06:39 -0500 2021 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([104.59.85.219]) by 5ess; Sat Feb 6 10:06:39 -0500 2021 Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 10:06:37 -0500 From: Stanley Lieber To: 9front@9front.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: shared scale-out plugin grid-oriented interface Subject: Re: [9front] maildir history Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk On February 6, 2021 9:15:26 AM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail=2Ecom> wrote: >9front upas is all based on erik's nupas code=2E > >afterwards it got modified a lot, so much that it might be a rewrite >would have been faster=2E > >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=2E > read the mail chapter in UNIX-HATERS, and read about why maildir was creat= ed=2E all of these problems are as old as e-mail=2E sl