[Dovecot] Backing Up

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:42 -0400, Allen Belletti wrote:
> I'd like to add my vote here as well; dbox would be *the* feature that
> would make me happy. I'm the guy who asked a few weeks ago about ways to
> speed access on our GFS clustered mail environment.
> 
> Meanwhile, I've done some preliminary testing with mbox. As expected,
> it's vastly faster than the Maildirs that we're using now. Of course it
> pains me to go "backwards" but that may be the interim solution. I got
> stopped temporarily when it seemed that I couldn't nest folders using
> mbox, but hopefully that's untrue.

You could use Maildir++ layout with mboxes too:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir++

mbox handling code is less stable than maildir code though.

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