[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:56 -0400, Jesse C. Smillie wrote:
> I thought this study in regards to speed was quite interesting:
>  http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ 
> <http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/>

It probably doesn't have much relevance to Dovecot+mbox though. Maildir
is faster with expunges and with concurrent mailbox access, but I think
Dovecot+mbox (without external changes) is faster for pretty much
everything else.

Anyway I think the main reason to use maildir is that it's much more
difficult to corrupt mailboxes.

The upcoming dbox and cydir formats of course beat everything in
performance :)

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