[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Charles Marcus]

>> 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.

> I was thinking about making dbox configurable. If it is run in
> one-mail-per-file mode there's no need for locking either.

Ahhh... ! Ok, that would be 'a good thing'... :)

Curious, though - why *not* make cydir a real usable format, if its 
performance is so good? Is it only/because there is no good solution to 
the extra risk of data loss if indexes get lost/corrupted?

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Best regards,

Charles