On 09/10/14 23:06, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 09 Oct 2014, at 15:20, C Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
The Dovecot wiki [1] doesn't list either Exim, Postfix or anything
else as supporting the dbox. I did some searching in the Exim
archives and have found only one message mentioning dbox, sdbox or
mdbox. [2] I think an RFC would go a long way towards getting the
format supported. Has Timo, or anyone else, considered submitting an
RFC to the IETF?
No, and I don't want it to happen anytime in near future. The dbox format is
highly Dovecot-specific, because it relies on Dovecot's index files. These
index files are still changing and I'm not sure if they will ever be fully
finished. I don't want any other software to even attempt to implement the same
functionality.
My question was how are we going to use it if Exim doesn't support it.
As others said, use LMTP or dovecot-lda with Sieve filtering.
Hi,
I am sorry if I am presumptuous or out of topic, but it seems to me that
the mail storage should be standardised.
I am still using Maildir myself, simply because I like the simplicity,
one file is one email, one directory is one email folder, for backup or
restore.
The only thing I don't like is the naming convention, but I don't know
if a file system exists today to store such information in label or tags
associated to each file.
Regarding the optimisation, I think it's the file system's role, albeit
I appreciate Dovecot's efforts to optimise the storage by taking in
consideration file system's specificities.
A feature I would like, is dovecot being able to store emails in
databases, SQL or NoSQL. I would use this for archiving and queries
purposes. MariaDB / Drizzle, or MongoDB, CouchDB, etc. There is plenty
of choice.
Maybe this storage scheme would be slower, but IMHO, this is not a
problem when people just want to archive their emails on a remote computer.
Maybe I could start this if I had some template or example to start.
Kind regards,
André.
