[plug] Maildir Archive and Retrieval or Access from cd?

[Brad Campbell]

Russell Steicke wrote:

> Just a point about reading Maildir off CD: you might find that reading
> many files to read the mailbox is slow because of the seek time.  This
> can apply to reading from HDs as well, but on a CD the seek time may be
> overwhelming.  If you plan to read your mail from the CD (not just
> backup), it may be worth experimenting with writing mbox format to the
> CD instead, so all the mail is in one file and your drive does less
> seeking to read it.  The reliability advantages of Maildir aren't
> relevant on read only media.  There's a maildir2mbox that comes with
> qmail, but beware it MOVES messages rather than copying them.

I do all my E-mail backup cd's in mbox format and read them with mutt.
It's a little slow but it's gotta be a million times faster than doing 
it with maildir. :p)


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