[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Nicolas KOWALSKI]

On 6/29/07, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> > Just remember that if you lose the index files there's no easy way to
> > recover the mailbox. Well, except by copying the files to maildir..
> >
> > I'm not sure if I should try to make cydir anything else than a
> > benchmark format or a simple example for writing mail storage backends.
> > I'm hoping that dbox will be practically as fast in all situations.
>
> One advantage of cydir over dbox was mentioned by Mark above re
> incremental backups - with dbox, you'd still have to backup the entire
> mailbox file, while with cydir, you'd only have to copy newer messages.

True.  In my old job, this was the main reason I switched users
mailboxes from UW-imap MBX to Cyrus. Performance was also much better
after the switch.

-- 
Nicolas