mbox/maildir/directories [was: Re: [Dovecot] still getting weird .{inbox} folder creations with latest -test7]

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:55, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Mbox is a better format for archiving. Now if Dovecot could also access
> (read-only ofcourse) compressed mbox archives ...
> 
> Food for thought. Just put it on the wishlist ;)

It's actually already in wishlist. Also compressed Maildir files are in
TODO :)

It wouldn't be too difficult to implement, just an istream wrapper for
zlib or bz2lib.