mbox/maildir/directories [was: Re: [Dovecot] still getting weird .{inbox} folder creations with latest -test7]

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 5 21:07:30 EEST 2003


On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:55, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Mbox is a better format for archiving. Now if Dovecot could also access
> (read-only ofcourse) compressed mbox archives ...
> 
> Food for thought. Just put it on the wishlist ;)

It's actually already in wishlist. Also compressed Maildir files are in
TODO :)

It wouldn't be too difficult to implement, just an istream wrapper for
zlib or bz2lib.




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