ZLIB/ZSTD Compressed MBOX in Maildir++ layout

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek jeff.sipek at open-xchange.com
Thu Jun 24 16:53:31 EEST 2021


On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:35:24 +0100, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> Our archive namespace is kept in MBOX format with Maildir++ layout due to:
> 
>   * Need to have the email from all users/folders self contained (our
>     base namespace uses MDBOX with single instance storage of attachments)
>   * MBOX/FS layout isn't supported because some folders have messages
>     and subfolders.

You should be able to use the fs layout if you specify a dirname:
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/mbox/mboxchildfolders/#messages-in-named-file

Then, the compression suffix being added shouldn't matter.

Jeff.
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