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> An email client should be a webview + sql-lite, no? I strongly prefer Maildir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
by subsection1h 4y ago
> An email client should be a webview + sql-lite, no?
I strongly prefer Maildir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
- sam_lowry_ 4y agoMaildir vs mbox is like emacs vs vim.
- indymike 4y agoNot really. Maildir does away with a host of problems ranging from file locking (the entire mbox file must be locked during writes, where maildir only requires the message being operated on the be locked), to network compatibility (no transporting a 4gb file back and forth), to corruption issues (mostly due to file size).
- mxuribe 4y agoI'm not a Thunderbird expert...but I seem to recall hearing some where that some desktop mail clients - especially Thunderbird - who use Maildir tend to also leverage sqlite (as an over-layer) to aid with content indexing and search...? If my recollection is right, that's kinda the best of both worlds: separate files (maildir) but speedy content search. :-)