James Brown
2009-May-27 04:44 UTC
[Dovecot] dbox verses maildir - advantages/disadvantages
I am migrating our mail server from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot. We currently use maildir storage format. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Dovecot's dbox format over maildir? Does anyone have any performance benchmarks for both? What do people use to test performance? We are running on a Mac OS X box (10.5.7) using Postfix 2.6. Thanks, James.
Timo Sirainen
2009-May-28 21:42 UTC
[Dovecot] dbox verses maildir - advantages/disadvantages
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:44 +1000, James Brown wrote:> I am migrating our mail server from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot. We > currently use maildir storage format. > > What are the advantages and disadvantages of Dovecot's dbox format > over maildir?Speed. Nothing else. Maildir can handle errors better, because if index files get lost/break you don't lose any state. With dbox you lose message flags.> Does anyone have any performance benchmarks for both? What do people > use to test performance?There is nothing that can benchmark real world usage. http://imapwiki.org/Benchmarking explains some of the reasons. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090528/31dc5216/attachment-0002.bin>