Dovecot mbox & other programs

Pali Rohár
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 21:11:09 -0000

On Monday 08 June 2015 23:06:26 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2015-06-08 14:48:12 +0200, Pali Roh?r wrote:
> > On Monday 08 June 2015 02:45:52 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> > > IMHO ... Maildir is a better format.
> >
> > Really? I do not think so! Having half of million (small) files in
> > one directory is killer... which eats caches and slow down access
> > time. Even listing such directory (without reading file contents)
> > consume lot of CPU cycles...
>
> so what?
>
> 1. modern filesystems
> 2. dovecot's caching
>
> 313k mails in single mailbox and no problems at all.
>

Still I want read/write access to storage and want to use mbox as
storage (also for easier backup and copy)...

And my question was how to properly read and write from/to mbox files
which are used by dovecot.

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Pali Roh?r
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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