29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
9:05 p.m.
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:56 -0400, Jesse C. Smillie wrote:
I thought this study in regards to speed was quite interesting: http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
It probably doesn't have much relevance to Dovecot+mbox though. Maildir is faster with expunges and with concurrent mailbox access, but I think Dovecot+mbox (without external changes) is faster for pretty much everything else.
Anyway I think the main reason to use maildir is that it's much more difficult to corrupt mailboxes.
The upcoming dbox and cydir formats of course beat everything in performance :)