Pali Roh?r writes:
Still I want read/write access to storage and want to use mbox as
storage (also for easier backup and copy)...
Backup performance may be another big win for Maildir, especially
for incremental backups. Be that as it may ...
And my question was how to properly read and w
On 2015-06-08 2:21 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Monday 08 June 2015 23:17:50 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
>> Through the imap protocol or at least the same locking mechanism
>> configured in dovecot.
>>
> It is which locking mechanism?
>
> It is really ok for dovecot to:
> 1) append (new) emails into mbox
On Monday 08 June 2015 23:17:50 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> Through the imap protocol or at least the same locking mechanism
> configured in dovecot.
>
It is which locking mechanism?
It is really ok for dovecot to:
1) append (new) emails into mbox file?
2) edit mbox file? (e.g. change some header/b
On 2015-06-08 23:11:09 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Still I want read/write access to storage and want to use mbox as
> storage (also for easier backup and copy)...
1. backup is actually much easier for maildir.
2. especially when you want to deleting mails in the mbox file it is a
lot of rewrit
On Monday 08 June 2015 23:06:26 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2015-06-08 14:48:12 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 08 June 2015 02:45:52 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> > > IMHO ... Maildir is a better format.
> >
> > Really? I do not think so! Having half of million (small) files in
> > one director
On 2015-06-08 14:48:12 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Monday 08 June 2015 02:45:52 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> > IMHO ... Maildir is a better format.
>
> Really? I do not think so! Having half of million (small) files in one
> directory is killer... which eats caches and slow down access time.
> Even
On Monday 08 June 2015 13:42:53 Tom Hendrikx wrote:
> On 06-06-15 19:01, Pali Roh?r wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to use dovecot as imap server with mbox storage format
> > (described at [1]) but I also want to access (and modify!) those
> > mbox files which are stored on server (and used by do
On Monday 08 June 2015 02:45:52 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> IMHO ... Maildir is a better format.
Really? I do not think so! Having half of million (small) files in one
directory is killer... which eats caches and slow down access time.
Even listing such directory (without reading file contents) consu
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On 06-06-15 19:01, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to use dovecot as imap server with mbox storage format
> (described at [1]) but I also want to access (and modify!) those
> mbox files which are stored on server (and used by dovecot).
>
> Wh
