[Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Sun Oct 14 02:13:43 EEST 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 09:25 +0100, Daniel W wrote:
> Is it also true that to read a single message 
> in a 800MB mbox, you need to load 800MB of data into memory which is 
> then searched for that message?

Of course not! That's what an index is for.

Richard
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