28 Jun
2012
28 Jun
'12
9:28 p.m.
On 2012-06-28 2:04 PM, Gary Mort <garyamort@gmail.com> wrote:
That's probably due to the different structures they use. sdbox can safely use either because each email message has a unique filename, and if it exists in both places it doesn't matter.
Eh?? Sdbox is like mbox - one file per mailbox/folder... it is NOT like maildir (one email = one file).
mdbox though is different, multiple messages are stored in a single file.
The diff between mdbox and sdbox is sdbox puts all messages for any given mailbox/folder in one sdbox file (just like mbox). Sdbox has a setting for the max filesize of the dbox file, and once an mdbox file exceeds that size, it creates a new mdbox file to start adding messages to.
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Best regards,
Charles