[Dovecot] Lazy expunge for performance ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:43 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> Some filesystems are quite slow at deleting files, so I'm wondering if
> anybody is using the lazy expunge plugin to implement a solution where
> expunged messages are moved to a separate directory structure within the
> same filesystem, and later deleted as a nighly batchjob ? Assuming expunge
> renames/moves messages, and don't do a copy + delete..
> 
> Does something like this make sense ?

Should work. Alternatively you could use mdbox.

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