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

[Daniel]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 11:22, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:33:50AM +0800, Daniel wrote:
> ...
> > Next I played with different options to try to get the file names
> > included in full (concept is to be able to access them as if they were
> > the actual original).  Nothing I did seemed to result with the file
> > names staying the same, even selecting the 
> > "Allows untranslated filenames"
> > "Do not translate the characters '~' and '#'
> 
> Are the names being changed to 8.3 format?  If so, you probably need to
> enable the Rock Ridge extensions for long filenames and unix attributes.
> 
> You can do the same for windows machines with the joliet extensions.
> Joliet and rock ridge extensions can live on the same cd.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Russell Steicke

Thanks Russell and Brad, good points.
Rock ridge is on and log shows:

Using 1045980907_458004.LONGBLACK_2_S;1 for 
/home/me/dbMaildr/Archive-Plug/mbox/cur/1045980907.458_15532.longblack:2,S (1045980907.458_15531.longblack:2,S)

Thanks for the ideas about mbox.
Cheers,
Daniel.