RobertHoltzman put forth on 1/9/2010 5:45 PM: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:27:33AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> Klistvud wrote: >>> I've heard maildir is more robust than mbox in that regard. Can anybody >>> confirm if that's true or not? >>> >> >> I'd say so. Since each message is a file, if one file gets corrupted >> only that message will be affected. > > But it slows down searches.
That's the general wisdom regarding search performance, but I'm not so sure that its correct for modern systems and software. I haven't located any modern apples-apples benchmarks of mbox vs maildir. Dovecot supports both mailbox formats and its mbox code has been heavily optimized. It would be nice to see this http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ benchmark performed today but testing dovecot-mbox vs dovecot-maildir. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org