Marcus Rueckert rueckert@informatik.uni-rostock.de writes:
kmail - offline imap mailsync
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for your message. Looked at both your suggestions, neither of which really do what I want. 8-)
kmail: I don't really want to be tied down to a particular MUA
mailsync: seems to still require opening messages to find their message-ids --- something that's much slower than just using the "uniq" part of the filename to track the identity of messages as they are moved. Also I don't fully trust message-ids in these days of spam since spammers can reuse any old message-ids they find.
So my question still stands! Would it be difficult to hack dovecot so that it maintained the "uniq" part of a maildir file name when it copied it?
While I'm asking this: how difficult would it be to have multiple physical maildir directories be presented by dovecot as a single IMAP folder? The reason I ask is that many file systems start to slow down noticably once one gets more than about 5000 files in a directory. (Reiser is an exception, but reiser has had other problems of reliability for me.) It would be nice to be able to spread a single folder out over several maildirs to reduce any possible problems from the file system.
Warm regards, --James Leifer