[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Charles Marcus]

> Just remember that if you lose the index files there's no easy way to
> recover the mailbox. Well, except by copying the files to maildir..
> 
> I'm not sure if I should try to make cydir anything else than a
> benchmark format or a simple example for writing mail storage backends.
> I'm hoping that dbox will be practically as fast in all situations.

One advantage of cydir over dbox was mentioned by Mark above re 
incremental backups - with dbox, you'd still have to backup the entire 
mailbox file, while with cydir, you'd only have to copy newer messages.

I think making cydir a real, viable replacement for standard maildir 
would be a good thing...

:)

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Best regards,

Charles