[Dovecot] Status of Dbox in 1.1

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jun 11 22:58:55 EEST 2008


On Jun 11, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 6/11/2008 1:58 PM, Anders wrote:
>> Steve Fosdick wrote:
>>> What is the status of dbox in dovecot 1.1 please?
>
>> I asked the same question some time ago, with no real answers,
> >
> >   http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-March/029260.html
>
> Thats not true... maybe you missed Timos response? See below:
>
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:05 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Anders wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am contemplating migrating from maildir to dbox. However, I  
> wonder
> >>> about the maturity of the dbox code, as it appears to not be  
> widely
> >>> used. Does anybody have some success stories?
>
> >> There's one bug left that I'd like to fix before v1.1.0, but you
> >> probably won't run into it without stress testing..
>
> > This is now fixed in hg as well, so the next release should have a
> > perfectly working dbox, or at least there are no bugs left that I'm
> > aware of.  :)
>
> So, according to Timo, it should be working 'perfectly'... :)

*SHOULD* .. But no guarantees of course :) After writing that mail  
I've found and fixed a couple of problems. Most (all?) of them were  
related to accessing maildir files generated by the quick maildir-to- 
dbox conversion.
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