Re: slow IMAP connection

Tim Mooney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In regard to: Re: [Imap-uw] slow IMAP connection, Bob Atkins said (at...:

> The only way to fix the slow I/O problem, especially with large mail boxes is 
> to convert to mix format. mbx format is only marginally better than mbox from 
> a performance standpoint. This is from my personal experience of having mail 
> boxes with 40,000+ messages and >2GB in size.

This brings up a question I've had: both traditional format and MBX run
into issues when they cross the 2 GiB boundary, because of signedness
issues in the UW code.  I realize a MIX folder is composed of multiple
files, but does that mean that the 2 GiB is not a problem for MIX?

Tim
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