22 Oct
2004
22 Oct
'04
4:50 p.m.
On 22.10.2004, at 13:47, Alan Schmitt wrote:
I'm going to have a lot of mail stored there (about 40000 messages for 1.4GB in 30 folders), and I was wondering if it was better (in terms of performance and stability) to directly access the mail using the maildir hierarchy, or access it using local IMAP.
Probably depends on how fast your mail client is at accessing mailboxes directly compared to Dovecot.
From Dovecot's point of view external modifications only make Dovecot rescan the mailbox to find out changes. With Maildir Dovecot does it pretty much constantly anyway so it shouldn't afftect performance much if at all. It doesn't affect stability.