[Dovecot] dbox verses maildir - advantages/disadvantages
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri May 29 00:42:24 EEST 2009
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:44 +1000, James Brown wrote:
> I am migrating our mail server from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot. We
> currently use maildir storage format.
>
> What are the advantages and disadvantages of Dovecot's dbox format
> over maildir?
Speed. Nothing else. Maildir can handle errors better, because if index
files get lost/break you don't lose any state. With dbox you lose
message flags.
> Does anyone have any performance benchmarks for both? What do people
> use to test performance?
There is nothing that can benchmark real world usage.
http://imapwiki.org/Benchmarking explains some of the reasons.
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