On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:56 -0400, Jesse C. Smillie wrote: > I thought this study in regards to speed was quite interesting: > http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ > <http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/>
It probably doesn't have much relevance to Dovecot+mbox though. Maildir is faster with expunges and with concurrent mailbox access, but I think Dovecot+mbox (without external changes) is faster for pretty much everything else. Anyway I think the main reason to use maildir is that it's much more difficult to corrupt mailboxes. The upcoming dbox and cydir formats of course beat everything in performance :)
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