On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:44 +1000, James Brown wrote: > I am migrating our mail server from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot. We > currently use maildir storage format. > > What are the advantages and disadvantages of Dovecot's dbox format > over maildir?
Speed. Nothing else. Maildir can handle errors better, because if index files get lost/break you don't lose any state. With dbox you lose message flags. > Does anyone have any performance benchmarks for both? What do people > use to test performance? There is nothing that can benchmark real world usage. http://imapwiki.org/Benchmarking explains some of the reasons.
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