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Grant Sewell wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:26:54 +0100 John Daragon wrote:mbox files really come into their own when they're on a server and you're accessing mail over a network.jd.If you don't mind me being stupid, may I ask how much difference it makes?
I keep a lot of email for reference. My largest mbox file is about 200MB, and contains over 40000 messages. It's usable over the network in mbox form, I got tired of waiting to see how long it would take to open when written to individual files...
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