[Dovecot] DBox questions - WAS: Re: Using tags instead of folders?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 07:41 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 7/2/2008, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> > You're also concentrating on only maildir format. Yes, there the limit
> > is 26 keywords and I don't have plans to improve it. But for example
> > with dbox format there is no such limit.
> 
> Cool! But three dbox questions:
> 
> 1. Do you consider dbox to be ready for prime time, in a production 
> environment?

I'm not aware of any bugs, but I'm also not aware of any real users..

> 2. Related to first question - do you foresee any major changes to its 
> internals, that would result in potentially painful updates in the 
> future, for anyone desiring to use it in production now?

No.

> 3. Where is documentation on configuration settings? There is nothing on 
> the wiki under Mailbox location configuration where maildir and mbox are 
> specifically discussed, I only found one page where it is mentioned 
> (Mailbox formats), and its own page, but there is nothing about actual 
> configuration settings.

The rotation settings are currently do nothing, since currently it
supports only one file = one message. So there are currently no dbox
settings.

> The only caveat I can surmise is that, since nothing else [currently] 
> supports dbox format except dovecot, you'd have to use dovecot's LDA - 
> which is not a problem, actually desirable for index updates, but it 
> would be good to see some official docs on how to set it [dbox] up 
> correctly.

I'm not really sure what it would say. :)
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