[Dovecot] mbox vs. maildir storage block waste

Tue Oct 30 13:31:40 EET 2012

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 07:03 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> What makes the most sense for me is to use mbox (or mdbox) for longer 
> term storage that you may be offloading to slower storage systems, and 
> use maildir (or sdbox) for the new mails...
Was also something I thought about... still the more I think about it,
the more I hate, that with mbox meta-data is stored in the mails.


> Would work great as long as you have a reliable method for archiving 
> older mails out to your slower storage.
I still hope for some DB backend ;)


Chris.
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