On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 21:12 -0700, David Lang wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Wesley Craig wrote: >>> On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: >>>> Why does cyrus need it's own >>>> structure for the mailboxes, which is similar, but not wholly >>>> compatible, to maildir. Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same >>>> disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), yet I see no >>>> distinctive advantage for the cyrus mailbox format to maildir. >>> Performance. I could go on & on, but that's the answer, basically. >> actually, I suspect that Cyrus existed before Maildir and since Cyrus is a >> 'black box' server there's no advantage to moving to maildir. >> Also Cyrus has cache, index, and flags stored seperatly from the message >> itself, >> which means that when these things are changed the message file itself >> doesn't >> need to change. > > Yep, which is why the sealed mailstore is a good idea: meta-data. You > can keep reliable meta-data if third parties can go in and muck about.
one of those "can" should be "can't" :-) David Lang >> doign a quick google check on maildir it also appears that maildir is not as >> standard as people think it is, it's defined almost entirely by the >> implementation (DJB started it, but never worked to turn it into a standard >> for >> others to use) > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
