[Dovecot] Configuration file changes in CVS

[Matthias Andree]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 16:20, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> > Or what if you want Maildir INBOX and mbox others? Maildir would support
>> > subfolders, so you'd have to include it in the namespace reply at least
>> > if it's hierarchy separator is different than with the mboxes.
>> 
>> No-one's supposed to use mbox. Optimize as much as you want, it just
>> doesn't scale at all.
>
> mbox is fine as long as you don't want to delete messages. It's perfect
> for read-only mailing list archives.

Unless you run incremental backups with systems such as IBM/Tivoli
Distributed Storage Manager that save complete files. Switching from
mbox to Maildir has a *major* effect on the nightly backup data
volume. With many users or users with big mboxes, or even with read-only
list archives that include "current month", it's just prohibitively
expensive.

I'd let my sister use it on her computer, but not in serious production
-- I'd use NNTP to offer read-only archives rather than IMAP, but that's
a personal preference.

-- 
Matthias Andree