In sdbox case there is always only one message per file. It's possible to use
filesystem's hard linking feature to copy the file (=the message), because the
message contents don't change.
In mdbox case there are multiple messages per file. It would again be possible
to copy a message by hard li
Sorry to insist, but the process you describe (copy up to 1GB (why ?
I still do not understand) ) is exactly the "sdbox" approach (one file
per message in each IMAP subfolder)
Let's please spend some more
analysis on this.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 00:45:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen
wrote:
> With maild
With maildir, single-dbox or multi-dbox when you copy a message, just about
nothing is read from disk and very little is written to disk. For example in
Maildir case a copy is the same as doing:
ln ~/Maildir/.source/cur/1234 ~/Maildir/.dest/cur/1234
This only accesses the file's metadata. It wo
I am not sure I understand why it would be "read entirely", as it is
the same as reading a message when accessing a folder and writing a file
when a new message in arriving which is the very most common
activity of a mail server... so not sure about any "wasteful" I/O
Can
we spend some mor
On 6.1.2011, at 0.11, Joan Moreau wrote:
> Is there a way to use the mdbox format (i.e. several message
> per files) for EACH IMAP folders (sdbox approach) ?
The problem with that is that when copying messages between mailboxes they
would have to be actually read and written entirely, rather th
Hi,
Is there a way to use the mdbox format (i.e. several message
per files) for EACH IMAP folders (sdbox approach) ?
Thanks
Joan
