[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:01 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> >> 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? 

What if dbox's performance will be even better? We'll see.

> Is it only/because there is no good solution to 
> the extra risk of data loss if indexes get lost/corrupted?

That, and dbox will have some other features such as single instance
attachment storage, which can't be implemented to cydir without making
the format more complex (and then it's practically the same as dbox).
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