On 09/10/14 23:06, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 09 Oct 2014, at 15:20, C Peters chuck.peters@gmail.com wrote:
The Dovecot wiki [1] doesn't list either Exim, Postfix or anything else as supporting the dbox. I did some searching in the Exim archives and have found only one message mentioning dbox, sdbox or mdbox. [2] I think an RFC would go a long way towards getting the format supported. Has Timo, or anyone else, considered submitting an RFC to the IETF?
No, and I don't want it to happen anytime in near future. The dbox format is highly Dovecot-specific, because it relies on Dovecot's index files. These index files are still changing and I'm not sure if they will ever be fully finished. I don't want any other software to even attempt to implement the same functionality.
My question was how are we going to use it if Exim doesn't support it.
As others said, use LMTP or dovecot-lda with Sieve filtering.
Hi,
I am sorry if I am presumptuous or out of topic, but it seems to me that the mail storage should be standardised.
I am still using Maildir myself, simply because I like the simplicity, one file is one email, one directory is one email folder, for backup or restore.
The only thing I don't like is the naming convention, but I don't know if a file system exists today to store such information in label or tags associated to each file.
Regarding the optimisation, I think it's the file system's role, albeit I appreciate Dovecot's efforts to optimise the storage by taking in consideration file system's specificities.
A feature I would like, is dovecot being able to store emails in databases, SQL or NoSQL. I would use this for archiving and queries purposes. MariaDB / Drizzle, or MongoDB, CouchDB, etc. There is plenty of choice.
Maybe this storage scheme would be slower, but IMHO, this is not a problem when people just want to archive their emails on a remote computer.
Maybe I could start this if I had some template or example to start.
Kind regards, André.