Daniel Watts wrote:
Dear Timo,
Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders
into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably
message count) limit?
My understanding is this is partially covered in Timo's "dbox" format, which
tries to take the best features of mbox and Maildir.
.Folder.new
.Folder.cur
.Folder.tmp
could become:
.Folder__1.new
.Folder__1.cur
.Folder__1.tmp
and
.Folder__2.new
.Folder__2.cur
.Folder__2.tmp
You would only need to split "cur", unless you expect someone to get over 10,000
new message waiting. "tmp" is only used _whilst_ message are being delivered,
so mail clients don't see a partially written message.
This could be further extended so that Dovecot could be configured to
store 'old' message folders in a separate location. We could then have
slower+cheaper+larger storage mounted so that 'old mail' does not take
up the expensive local SCSI disks on the machine. Mail from 2 years ago
is much less likely to be accessed than mail from the last week.
Also, instead of __N, you could try a different path, so /foo/bar/User/ is for
new mail, and /old/slow/disk/User is for older stuff.
This would provide very neat behind-the-scenes archiving functionality.
There's really two ideas here... one is the mechanism of multi-directory
folders, the other is the policy of separating by age.
--
Curtis Maloney
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