On 08/20/2014 10:13 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
No, it is today... from a cold cache, 0.2 seconds w/mbox, vs. 60+ seconds for maildir. You cannot claim 60 seconds is a reasonable time to wait for a spur of the moment search.
All this line of argument, Linda, is pointless. What you're saying is "Its like that for me so I don't want to do that here". Fine. Don't. But "Context is Everything" and so much of what you assert is your context. I'm not disputing your context, I'm just saying that its not mine and not others. You've made it very clear in other threads that you run a very specific and very non-standard setup, disputing the use, for example, of initrd for booting. Fine, your context, your privilege. But don't tell us that not using initrd is the 'standard'. Yes, 'standards' of which there are so many and we can pick and choose from them, are useful. At times. And thy get revised and innovation and things like IBM, Microsoft and others create new 'standards'. Back when there was nothing else 'sendmail' was the standard, but once alternatives became available ... that was questionable. Conventions are not standards. Others are asserting that Postfix is the 'standard' with openSuse. Well either that or Exim have to be installed in anything except the most minimal. But a Choice is not a Standard. You can _choose_ whether to use mbox or maidir is used by anyy of the MTAs and MDAs we've discussed.
NO IT DOESN'T... That's not the way Dovecot works. It keeps meta changes in it's index files. The data in the mbox is remarkably unchanged except when automated processes expire the email.
Well good. but you've just done a switch form the general to the specific, and that's yet another of the trick in argument that Thules writes of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_and_Crooked_Thinking We can bat these back and forth. Endlessly.
No, it is today... from a cold cache, 0.2 seconds w/mbox, vs. 60+ seconds for maildir. You cannot claim 60 seconds is a reasonable time to wait for a spur of the moment search.
Well excuse me! I bring up the menu click on the Thunderbird icon, have the KDE bouncing icon go at it, the the Thunderbird splash screen then T'Bird make the network connections to my local IMAP server (which is already running so the times you talk of are irrelevant) and the half dozen or so remote IMAP servers at various ISPs (see above). I then put my coffee cup down, add milk and fo ad sit at my desk once again. Sixty seconds? You jest? The reality is that a few weeks ago I booted the system with a new kernel, started up T'Bird and assigned it to a KDE desktop; firefox another, Konsle & tabs to yet another. All the times you speak of are a complete irrelevance as far s the UI are concerned. I have plucine and I got most of the ISPs to use it as well (Rogers seems to be the exception) as they need 'features' to stay competitive. (Rogers is pretty much a monopoly, they have divided up the country with Shaw.) I've also pointed out that I *chose* to use mbox for my archives, the stuff that never gets deleted or modified. That too has full indexing and plucine indexing so you are in fact agreeing with me over that. -- Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A. Edison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org