On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 23:06 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
There is of course mdbox also, which gives the best of both mbox and maildir (and some of its own new annoyances). Thanks, Timo,... I forgot to mention that.
For me _personally_ two things speak against using it:
a) To be honest, "you must not lose the dbox index files, they can't be regenerated without data loss"[0] made me a bit scared ;-)
b) ext* has no integrity checking (by hash sums) so I used to create my own that puts SHA512 hashes into the inodes of files (as USER_XATTRS). This of course, works only when you have a storage format where files don't change anymore once written,... which can't work with formats having multiple mails per file.
Thanks, Chris.
btw: What are the actual advantages of sdbox over maildir?