[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released

[Charles Marcus]

On 7/19/2007, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
>> Is this going to initially be just for attachments? Or for the 
>> entire message (not a big deal if it is only attachments, as it is 
>> attachments I'm mostly concerned about)?

> I think I'll make the dbox format itself support both, but at least 
> initially it's done only for attachments.

By the way... it just occurred to me...

We are talking about Single Instance Storage across the entire 
namespace, not just on a per dbox file, right?

>> Will conversion of an existing mail store take place automatically 
>> (as users are converted to dbox), or will there be a migration tool 
>> of some kind?

> Convert plugin can be used to do that. I was thinking about making 
> maildir -> dbox conversion superfast by allowing the maildir files be 
> used directly as dbox files. Only when some dbox metadata needs to be 
> written the file will have to be rewritten into dbox format.

Interesting - so they would auto-self-convert only when necessary? 
Impressive...

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Best regards,

Charles