Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 05/31/08 18:06, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/31/08 15:54, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:00:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 05/27/08 15:27, Public Mailing Lists wrote:
>>>>> Would using mbox make it any better?
>>>> Depends on your definition of "better".  uw-imapd and (maybe)
>>>> Dovecot support mbox-backed-IMAP, so maybe that's the route you
>>>> should take.
>>> uw-imapd supports mbox and an improved folder-in-a-file format called
>>> mbx.
>> And when you need to delete an email from the middle of an huge
>> sequential file?
>>
>> The bottom line is that sequential files are *bad* "huge data"
>> stores for everything except append-only log files.
> 
> I didn't say it was optimal. I only said it was way better than
> non-indexed mbox.
> 
> And then, of course, is the counter claim that maildir requires you many
> more system calls for the basic operation of scanning a mailbox, which
> is more common than modifying a mailbox.

That may be why searching a whole folder is so slow in Tbird &
courier-imapd.  Or maybe not.

> (This is, at least, the opinion of Mark Crispin, last time I read him in
> a discussion on that topic)
> 


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of
diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.", Mr. Spock
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