[Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 18 16:56:31 EET 2010


On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:46 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> namespace private {
>     separator = /
>     prefix = "mail/"

Things would probably be simpler if you used prefix="" here.

>     location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

So you've mboxes..

> namespace private {
>     separator = /
>     prefix = "mail-Archives/"
>     location = maildir:~/mail-Archives:LAYOUT=fs

Are these really maildirs? Seems like exactly the opposite of what
they're good at :) (Maildir is good for active mails, mbox for
unchanging archives.)

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