[Dovecot] DBox questions - WAS: Re: Using tags instead of folders?

[Charles Marcus]

On 7/2/2008, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> You're also concentrating on only maildir format. Yes, there the limit
> is 26 keywords and I don't have plans to improve it. But for example
> with dbox format there is no such limit.

Cool! But three dbox questions:

1. Do you consider dbox to be ready for prime time, in a production 
environment?

2. Related to first question - do you foresee any major changes to its 
internals, that would result in potentially painful updates in the 
future, for anyone desiring to use it in production now?

and

3. Where is documentation on configuration settings? There is nothing on 
the wiki under Mailbox location configuration where maildir and mbox are 
specifically discussed, I only found one page where it is mentioned 
(Mailbox formats), and its own page, but there is nothing about actual 
configuration settings.

The only caveat I can surmise is that, since nothing else [currently] 
supports dbox format except dovecot, you'd have to use dovecot's LDA - 
which is not a problem, actually desirable for index updates, but it 
would be good to see some official docs on how to set it [dbox] up 
correctly.

Tia Timo,

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Best regards,

Charles