[Dovecot] Configuration file changes in CVS

[Andreas Aardal Hanssen]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>>> 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.

I totally disagree with you here. What is lost with backups is gained in 
overall load on your system.

I know for a _fact_ (my own personal experience) that there are large free
email providers that use Maildir for this very purpose.

Andy

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Andreas Aardal Hanssen