10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
10:38 p.m.
I'm currently using mbox and mbx with UW-IMAP, mbox for space efficiency and mbx for folders with lots of messages for time efficiency without a large space cost. I've avoided maildir because it has a relatively high space cost; mbox has no inter-message cost while maildir wastes on average half a sector plus an inode for each message.
What other formats are there, and has anyone come up with a good format that gives both good time and space characteristics without sacrificing reliability?
(I'm aware of the file format list in the UW-IMAP distro: http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/formats.txt.html)