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Hi Timo, Any chance the mbox/mdbox writer code could be modified to do physical preallocation on files to help avoid file(system) fragmentation? Constantly appending a file is the prime recipe for causing fragmentation, and mbox is notorious for this--not a fault of Dovecot but the nature of the mbox beast. Obviously maildir doesn't have such a problem, but some (many?) of us still prefer