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Christian Neukirchen 8 years ago
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@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ PRINCIPLES
it using sendmail(8), as provided by OpenSMTPD, Postfix, msmtp(1), dma(8)
or similar. mblaze expects your mail to reside in Maildir folders.
mblaze operates directly on Maildir and doesn't use caches or database.
There is no setup needed for many uses. All tools have been written with
performance in mind. Enumeration of all mails in a Maildir is avoided
unless necessary, and then optimized to use few syscalls. Parsing mail
metadata is optimized to use few I/O requests. Initial operations on big
Maildir may feel slow, but as soon as they are in cache, everything is
blazing fast. The tools are written to be memory efficient (i.e. not
wasteful), but whole messages are assumed to fit into RAM easily (at a
time).
mblaze operates directly on Maildir and doesn't use own caches or
databases. There is no setup needed for many uses. All tools have been
written with performance in mind. Enumeration of all mails in a Maildir
is avoided unless necessary, and then optimized to use few syscalls.
Parsing mail metadata is optimized to use few I/O requests. Initial
operations on big Maildir may feel slow, but as soon as they are in file
system cache, everything is blazing fast. The tools are written to be
memory efficient (i.e. not wasteful), but whole messages are assumed to
fit into RAM easily (at a time).
mblaze has been written from scratch and tested on a big pile of personal
mail, but is not actually 100% RFC conforming (which is neither worth it

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