[Dovecot] mbox vs. maildir storage block waste

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Tue Oct 30 13:30:29 EET 2012


On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 07:00 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> So... what are the disadvantages?
I (but I'm no expert) would guess that it's a dovecot-only format.
No support from most other tools,...

I'd guess you cannot use e.g. maildrop with it, or can you?


I personally was always a bit worried, when meta-data is put in the
mail... now AFAIU dbox does _not_ do this... and you can cleanly extract
each unmodified mail from the dbox fail (single or multi), right?


Cheers,
Chris.
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