On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:41 -0600, Rick Romero wrote: > I've got a couple servers using Maildir format. As I understand it from > a simple perspective, 'new' contains newly delivered messages, and 'cur' > contains messages that have been 'handled'.
I'm not sure if there's anything official, but typically messages are moved from new/ to cur/ the first time they're seen by a MUA. Dovecot adds \Recent flag to that session which managed to move the message to cur/. > Is it possible to have Dovecot NOT move a file from new/ to cur/ until a > flag has been assigned to the mail? By changing the code, sure. I'm not really interested in implementing that. > Just from a, possible, performance > standpoint - it seems when accessing an INBOX from a PHP webmail system > with MANY new mails, there is an unnecessary(?) mass move of these files > to another folder. You could try dbox format for better performance.
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