[Dovecot] Speed up large maildirs

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 16 00:25:32 EET 2005


On 15.2.2005, at 21:42, Jim Trigg wrote:

>> Basically the current indexes, with message bodies stored in one or
>> more files depending on how configured, but without any duplicated
>> metadata in them. Configuration would probably be "try to keep file
>> sizes around 1MB" or "1 message per file".
>
> I'm hoping that you're not intending to go the Cyrus route where only 
> the
> proprietary format is supported; I don't want to give up the ability to
> use procmail/formail/other unix utilities on messages...

Dovecot is built from the beginning to support multiple mailbox 
formats. That won't change and it's clearly one of its current major 
strengths.
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