On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:04:14AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> As for what mailbox format, there is no more 'dbox', it is either
> sdbox (like mbox one file per folder) or mdbox (multiple files per
> folder) -
Sdbox is like maildir, one message per file, while mdbox is more
like mbox:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox
> that said, mdbox seems to be the best general purpose, but
> my understanding is it can complicate things if something goes
> wrong, but it seems to be very solid.
It's a leap of faith to go with dovecot's own format, and no longer be
able to use grep and mutt to poke in mail folders directly, but as a
serverside storage format it seems like the right way to go.
-jf
