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Worth switching to maildir in my case?

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Hi,

After years using TB version 60 due to a discontinued extension, I wanna try 102 now. Is the maildir storage format still experimental? In particular, I'd like to know:

1. Performance: Which format tends to perform better when a folder goes beyond, say, three thousand messages? 2. Disk activity: Is there any risk of maildir reducing my SSD lifetime, considering that it writes more to disk? I don't receive many messages a day, normally less than a hundred. 3. Disk space: Does maildir takes much more space than MBox, considering that each file takes 4k disk space no matter its size (at least on NTFS)?

Thanks much, Cleverson

Hi, After years using TB version 60 due to a discontinued extension, I wanna try 102 now. Is the maildir storage format still experimental? In particular, I'd like to know: 1. Performance: Which format tends to perform better when a folder goes beyond, say, three thousand messages? 2. Disk activity: Is there any risk of maildir reducing my SSD lifetime, considering that it writes more to disk? I don't receive many messages a day, normally less than a hundred. 3. Disk space: Does maildir takes much more space than MBox, considering that each file takes 4k disk space no matter its size (at least on NTFS)? Thanks much, Cleverson

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I would not recommend maildir. I use it for a google IMAP account and it is generally functional, but I would not place anything of real value there as yet.

I have no idea, as Thunderbird is driven by it's internal index, I don;t think there is going to be much difference on an SSD with regard to speed. For MBOX the index is an offset in a file, for maildir is is a file. In both cases the file has to be opened that a set amount of data read (about the same as both have an upper limit of the actual message size).

Maildir has some appealing features, like removing the need for compacting, making backups smaller and removing the ability of antivirus to get bogged down on multi Gigbyte file. But that really is about it. That is partially why a plugable storage format, which mailDir implements is desired but not being driven hard. THere are some benefits, but nothing critical at this time.

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Zaɓi Mafita

I would not recommend maildir. I use it for a google IMAP account and it is generally functional, but I would not place anything of real value there as yet.

I have no idea, as Thunderbird is driven by it's internal index, I don;t think there is going to be much difference on an SSD with regard to speed. For MBOX the index is an offset in a file, for maildir is is a file. In both cases the file has to be opened that a set amount of data read (about the same as both have an upper limit of the actual message size).

Maildir has some appealing features, like removing the need for compacting, making backups smaller and removing the ability of antivirus to get bogged down on multi Gigbyte file. But that really is about it. That is partially why a plugable storage format, which mailDir implements is desired but not being driven hard. THere are some benefits, but nothing critical at this time.

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Thanks much, so I'll stick to MBox for now.