On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 20:14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 22.6.2004, at 04:49, Tom Allison wrote:
I had a conversation with the same fellow a while back.
I'm told that dbmail is actually very fast in mail retrieval. But I was unable to confirm it myself.
It could be fast, but it couldn't be faster than doing "cat mailfile", which is basically what maildir clients do.
Actually, in a really large folder, a database (with a decent organization) could be significantly faster than "cat mailfile" on more traditional filesystems.
However, as filesystems take on more database-like features, this distinction will likely become less important. (EG: dir_index on ext3).
Thanks for dovecot. It's really great.
-- Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu