[Alpine-info] bug reports

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:


> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:

>

>> This is due to the addition of UIDPLUS support.  We took a great deal 

>> of heat over the years for not supporting UIDPLUS; and a large reason 

>> was because we knew that it would cause performance problems with 

>> saving in traditional UNIX mailbox format.

>

> Is this something that might deserve an advanced toggle (to turn it 

> off)?


I was thinking of suggesting the same thing, so now I'll just second it. 
If it isn't a huge hassle, it would be a nice improvement.  Maybe it could 
be a command-line option such as -fast_mbox or --fast_mbox (if you want to 
move toward the double-minus approach).

Mike