[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Sat Jun 30 20:34:43 EEST 2007


>> Curious, though - why *not* make cydir a real usable format, if its 
>> performance is so good? 

> What if dbox's performance will be even better? We'll see.

Heh... don't know why I even bothered asking - you are always about 357 
steps ahead of me... ;)

>> Is it only/because there is no good solution to 
>> the extra risk of data loss if indexes get lost/corrupted?

> That, and dbox will have some other features such as single instance
> attachment storage, which can't be implemented to cydir without making
> the format more complex (and then it's practically the same as dbox).

Bingo - dbox wins... :)

Thanks for all you do Timo...

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Best regards,

Charles


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