>I guess I will try the Maildir hard links script with >cyrus-imapd for providing access to the 6G of mail on my desktop. >I'm okay that it would be read-only... it's probably a feature.
I am continually confused why anyone thinks Maildir is a good idea for mailbox storage; I think it is fine for a _maildrop_ (since that was it's intended purpose), but every time I've seen it used as a backend for mailbox storage, you end up cramming a lot of metadata into the individual filenames and nobody seems to quite agree on those metadata semantics. Also, I thought cyrus-imapd uses it's own internal backend for mail storage and Maildir isn't one of them. Looks like the list of storage types is here: https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/concepts/deployment/databases.html#storage-types You might be thinking of Dovecot which _does_ use Maildir as a backend storage, but my understanding is that Dovecot has the filename metadata problem mentioned above. --Ken
