Autor: Peter Galbavy Data: A: Juha Saarinen, Nigel Metheringham CC: Tom Samplonius, Dave C., Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. G8TIC, exim-users Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Mail storage formats/ POP/IMAP/webmail daemon/etc..
> The actual report (as opposed to a reference to it - useful when > geocities goes down for an hour or so) is at
> http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ >
> Its interesting reading... would be even more interesting for large
> sites if courier cached some of the metadata.
The problem is that the benchmark compares mbox and maildir formats. I
suspect that the results would be very different if the default format were
mbx.
I am not trying to say maildir is bad - I have chosen it for our new service
purely because I can use it with NFS for a many-to-many server environment.
I would love to see some independent benchmarks like the ones dome above.
