[Dovecot] Maildir format use question

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Rick Romero wrote:

> So I'm left with a quandry.  I guess the simple question is, Should mail 
> in cur, EVER not have a flag?  I suppose if it were marked as UNSEEN 
> after being SEEN, that's possible.  So I just answered myself there :)

Just SELECTing a mailbox causes Dovecot to

> Is it possible to have Dovecot NOT move a file from new/ to cur/ until a 
> flag has been assigned to the mail?  Just from a, possible, performance 
> standpoint - it seems when accessing an INBOX from a PHP webmail system 
> with MANY new mails, there is an unnecessary(?) mass move of these files 
> to another folder.

No, (as I understand it) because the time when they are moved to cur/ is 
when they are assigned UIDs.

You can avoid this performance loss (as I understand it) by using Dovecot 
deliver to deliver the messages straight into cur/. (Others including 
Timo, correct me if I misunderstand!)

-- Asheesh.

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