[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 16:37 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > 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 was thinking about making dbox configurable. If it is run in
one-mail-per-file mode there's no need for locking either.

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