Re: [bug-mailutils] maildir for mail.local

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Sorry for delaying the answer:

Jeff Williams <address@hidden> wrote:

> Where does this trigger scanning of the mailbox? I had a look at
> mbox.c and could not find where it scans the mailbox. But assuming
> that it does, why does it do it? I suppose I am coming from a maildir
> mindset, but I can't see why you would have to scan the entire mailbox
> to add a message.

Possibly I didn't explain myself quite clearly. If you only call
mailbox_open+mailbox_append_message+mailbox_close, scanning should not
occure. However, almost any other call, such as mailbox_get_message,
mailbox_get_count, etc, will initiate the scanning if it has not been
done yet. So, care should be taken to avoid these calls.

> Ok, so this is different than opening the mailbox with MU_STREAM_APPEND?

No, it will be an improvement of the existing append mode.

Regards,
Sergey