On Saturday, October 7, 2017 6:13:57 PM CEST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:59:39 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Although, I will also be switching to dovecot's mdbox format when I > > > set up my next server, so the issue of lots of small files won't be > > > nearly as big. > > > > mdbox? Is this a single file per mail folder? > > It's multiple mails per file and multiple files per mailbox. > > > The main reason I switched to maildir several decades ago was precisely > > the issues (by design) mbox has. > > A single corrupted email WILL kill the entire folder. > > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox
Interesting, but I still consider multiple emails inside a single file a recepy for disaster. The following is another cause for concern: "This also means that you must not lose the dbox index files, they can't be regenerated without data loss. " -- Joost
