[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 22:16 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> As I noticed almost no difference in performance (no real numbers
> here, just a usage feeling with 5-10k messages mailboxes) between
> dovecot 1.0 + maildir and cyrus 2.2.13/2.3.8, having dovecot use a
> storage format 10 times faster than Maildir is really attractive.

The 10 times was only when appending new messages. I haven't benchmarked
other operations. I doubt there is any noticeable performance gain for
single users, unless your mailbox has hundreds of thousands of messages.

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