On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:24 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 7/19/2007, Timo Sirainen (tss@iki.fi) wrote:
Is this going to initially be just for attachments? Or for the entire message (not a big deal if it is only attachments, as it is attachments I'm mostly concerned about)?
I think I'll make the dbox format itself support both, but at least initially it's done only for attachments.
By the way... it just occurred to me...
We are talking about Single Instance Storage across the entire namespace, not just on a per dbox file, right?
There will be a configurable location for the storage, so typically you'd set it to same with all users so all users' all dboxes use it.
Will conversion of an existing mail store take place automatically (as users are converted to dbox), or will there be a migration tool of some kind?
Convert plugin can be used to do that. I was thinking about making maildir -> dbox conversion superfast by allowing the maildir files be used directly as dbox files. Only when some dbox metadata needs to be written the file will have to be rewritten into dbox format.
Interesting - so they would auto-self-convert only when necessary?
Yep.