Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]
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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.
> Dovecot supports both. It also indexes the mbox file (assuming that
> it is the only one modifiying it, according to ctime).
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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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