[Dovecot] mdbox

[Patrick Westenberg]

Daniel L. Miller schrieb:
> Reviewing some mailing list archives and the wiki, I still don't have a
> real clear picture of why I'd want to use mdbox. What I've taken from
> the info I've reviewed says mdbox is more complicated (than sdbox), has
> greater potential for breakage (simply because it's more complex), and
> has a theoretical performance impact depending on the exact
> filesystem/hardware used.

More complicated for who? ;)

mdbox's index file can break as well as the index file used with
maildir. However, Dovecot can and will fix it automatically.

I can´t imagine a possible performance impact because mdbox doesn´t
need as much files as maildir. Searching through all your mails and
backup procedures should be faster than with maildir.

Why don´t you setup a testsystem, copy some maildirs from your
production system, convert them to mdbox and play around?

Patrick