[Dovecot] Plan/Status of MBX support?

Marcus Rueckert rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock.de
Tue Apr 25 17:56:13 EEST 2006


On 2006-04-25 12:37:31 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote:
> >Now the problem is, we have to use the tranditional mbox format with 
> >dovecot, as it does not support indexed mbox format, which makes 
> >deleting messages costly. Also the long-time file locking (due to the 
> >slow operation on the dovecot side) causes our MTA (exim, by the way) 
> >holds a huge queue. That drives up the system load to mad (load 
> >average above 500 is not unusual in our case).
> >
> sorry just have to ask - does your server actually WORK at loads of 500?
> What kind of usage have you got?
> 

ever thought on maildir?

darix

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