reformime bug?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 16 16:58:03 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Harald Becker <ralda at gmx.de> wrote:
>  Hallo Denys!
>> Imagine you have a 10 gig mbox file. You delete a few 4kb emails. How
>> this space is going to be reclaimed? With maildir, it's a trivial problem.
>
> True. Each format has advantages and disadvantages. I didn't want to
> point someone else to a specific format, but I don't like TO BE POINTED
> by others. I tried both, MBOX works for me best.

I do not claim that maildir has no disadvantages.
You claimed that mbox is more space efficient than maildir.
I am pointing out that it's not true.

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vda


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