dovecot - Oct 2003 - mbox/maildir/directories [was: Re: still getting weird .{inbox} folder creations with latest -test7]

This is a bit of a late reply, but still:

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:06, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> CVS has been optimized to assume all files beginning with a dot (except
> .subscriptions currently) are mailboxes. This is faster since it
doesn't
> have to stat() each file to figure out if it's a directory or not.
> Perhaps that should be optional. New Linux systems (maybe others too)
> wouldn't actually even need the stat()..
>
> I'll probably some day also add support for dotless
directory-structured
> mailbox locations, but it's not really high priority.
Well, on our systems the mailbox is in /var/mail in maildir format,
and in ~/Mail users have split up their folders in subdirs, in
mixed maildir and mbox formats.

So if dovecot could support both dotless directory-structured mailbox
locations and maildir/mbox mix-n-match in the same tree, that would
be excellent for us.

Mbox is a better format for archiving. Now if Dovecot could also access
(read-only ofcourse) compressed mbox archives ...

Food for thought. Just put it on the wishlist ;)

Mike.

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:55, Miquel van Smoorenburg
wrote:
> Mbox is a better format for archiving. Now if Dovecot could also access
> (read-only ofcourse) compressed mbox archives ...
> 
> Food for thought. Just put it on the wishlist ;)
It's actually already in wishlist. Also compressed Maildir files are in
TODO :)

It wouldn't be too difficult to implement, just an istream wrapper for
zlib or bz2lib.