[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:24 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 7/19/2007, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> >> Is this going to initially be just for attachments? Or for the 
> >> entire message (not a big deal if it is only attachments, as it is 
> >> attachments I'm mostly concerned about)?
> 
> > I think I'll make the dbox format itself support both, but at least 
> > initially it's done only for attachments.
> 
> By the way... it just occurred to me...
> 
> We are talking about Single Instance Storage across the entire 
> namespace, not just on a per dbox file, right?

There will be a configurable location for the storage, so typically
you'd set it to same with all users so all users' all dboxes use it.

> >> Will conversion of an existing mail store take place automatically 
> >> (as users are converted to dbox), or will there be a migration tool 
> >> of some kind?
> 
> > Convert plugin can be used to do that. I was thinking about making 
> > maildir -> dbox conversion superfast by allowing the maildir files be 
> > used directly as dbox files. Only when some dbox metadata needs to be 
> > written the file will have to be rewritten into dbox format.
> 
> Interesting - so they would auto-self-convert only when necessary? 

Yep.

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