On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:41 -0600, Rick Romero wrote:
I've got a couple servers using Maildir format. As I understand it from a simple perspective, 'new' contains newly delivered messages, and 'cur' contains messages that have been 'handled'.
I'm not sure if there's anything official, but typically messages are moved from new/ to cur/ the first time they're seen by a MUA. Dovecot adds \Recent flag to that session which managed to move the message to cur/.
Is it possible to have Dovecot NOT move a file from new/ to cur/ until a flag has been assigned to the mail?
By changing the code, sure. I'm not really interested in implementing that.
Just from a, possible, performance standpoint - it seems when accessing an INBOX from a PHP webmail system with MANY new mails, there is an unnecessary(?) mass move of these files to another folder.
You could try dbox format for better performance.