Hi, All,
I've been happy user of dovocot as far. It is easy to configure, reliable and secure. Hat off to all developers who make this possible!
I know dovecot is on the mailbox format front, it supports both mbox and maildir format well, and is developing and experimenting a new flexible format, dbox.
But is there any plan to add mbx (i.e., indexed mbox format) support, to complete the set?
There is some circumstance that mbox format is chosen over the mordern maildir format, For example in our situation, we receive many, many small messages and it would be expensive to create so many files with maildir. And we do a lot of searching - again a single mbox is faster in searching.
Now the problem is, we have to use the tranditional mbox format with dovecot, as it does not support indexed mbox format, which makes deleting messages costly. Also the long-time file locking (due to the slow operation on the dovecot side) causes our MTA (exim, by the way) holds a huge queue. That drives up the system load to mad (load average above 500 is not unusual in our case).
If dovecot support index mbox format, we be in the havean! But is there a plan to add this support in the near future?
Thanks,
JY