This thread is permanently archived
mbox vs maildir for SSDs?
| Really? No one? Is bashing Windows the only thing /tech/ is good for? But no opinions on legit tech questions?
I am disasspoint.
| I thought mbox and maildir are file/directory structures for a mailserver. I didn't knew that Thunderbird as a client uses it.
Regarding your SSD: Every modern filesystem, even NTFS under Windos :P, is able do handle SSDs properly. I would recommend using EXT4. It doesn't matter how your directory/file structure is. I think they don't have a big or at all an influence to write operations.
| Maildir will be faster in the long run too. With mbox, indexing emails in a 4GB file is slow. In Maildir, it will be faster as the emails are all split into multiple files and moving/deleting/adding emails in not editing a big file, but simply creating/moving/deleting smaller files as needed.
| I found out that unfortunately thunderbird does not support maildir flawlessly:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Maildir
This should be considered.
Did you have a look on Kmail from KDE? It's really fast and uses a interoperable database server as universal interface not only for mail but also for calendar, contacts and notes. It also supports many groupware standards like IMAP, exchange (partially as it is bin-free), kollab, cal-/cardDAV, etc.
This thread is permanently archived
| Hey gurls,
So I'm setting setting up Thunderbird on my laptop.
Have an option to use either mbox or maildir. Which mailbox format is less likely to destroy my SSD?