dbox ==== Introduced with Dovecot 1.0a4. The point is to have a high performance mail store combining all the best qualities of other mailbox formats. Some behavior can't be universally accepted as optimal, so dbox allows sysadmin to configure those: * One mail per file, or multiple mails per file? If multiple, * How large each file can grow? This is a tradeoff between read and expunge performance. * How old files do we still append new mails to? Helps with incremental backups. * How often should changed mail metadata (flags and keywords) be written to dbox files, instead of only in Dovecot's index files? This is a tradeoff between reliability and performance. dbox format isn't finished yet, so it should only be used for testing purposes. References ---------- * http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-September/009294.html * Redesign plans: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022602.html (This file was created from the wiki on 2007-06-15 04:42)