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

[Robert Schetterer]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> 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. :)

Hi Timo,
perhaps it would be helpfull to have more examples
with dbox in the wiki, where examples with maildir are stated too
even if there is no difference about use , that just for keep away some 
setup unsureness, and does the wiki more complete
if using dbox by the users

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria