On 2012-10-29 4:54 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]>
wrote:
In the end I probably changed my opinion.
~7GB of wasted block space for all my mails is actually quite a lot, but
in days of cheap disk space it's acceptable.
And with mbox one has IMHO the major disadvantage that mailservers
(including dovecot) store some meta-data_in_ it (i.e. in the mails
themselves) , which I don't like a lot.
I still think about reports that mbox is much faster with full text
search (which sounds reasonable)... but therefore one needs probably and
database backend anyway.
What makes the most sense for me is to use mbox (or mdbox) for longer
term storage that you may be offloading to slower storage systems, and
use maildir (or sdbox) for the new mails...
Would work great as long as you have a reliable method for archiving
older mails out to your slower storage.
This is what I plan on doing someday...
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Best regards,
Charles
