-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2010-11-17 at 11:58 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Marcus Rueckert <> [11-17-10 11:48]:
dbox is much younger than maildir. Timo ironed it out nicely so it is all stable now, but 10years ago it wasnt available. and once he finished single instance storage i might switch to dbox.
what is mix?
a variation of mbox, iiuc. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mix just as dbox is an mbox derivative.
Both are a kind of maildir and mbox together: several mails per file, but with a limit. When there are too many another file is added, and there is a common index. Thus, in a maillist such as this you don't get thousands of files per directory, nor you get huge files when you have many mails with big attachements. I have two problems for not using it: one, that procmail can not use it, and that dovecot can not mix different formats, AFAIK, so migration is not that easy.
If you change to dbox, how will you read with mutt?
Via imap. Which is also a problem, if dovecot fails we can not read the folder directly. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzl4m0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XulQCghE3qXoJM41PR6lY6DPPtyRSg uIQAnRFSAbbrQKw3R5IOFqKg+8m3cWa4 =6C6n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org