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On Saturday, October 7, 2017 6:13:57 PM CEST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:59:39 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > > Although, I will also be switching to dovecot's mdbox format when I |
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> > > set up my next server, so the issue of lots of small files won't be |
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> > > nearly as big. |
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> > mdbox? Is this a single file per mail folder? |
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> It's multiple mails per file and multiple files per mailbox. |
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> > The main reason I switched to maildir several decades ago was precisely |
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> > the issues (by design) mbox has. |
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> > A single corrupted email WILL kill the entire folder. |
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> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox |
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Interesting, but I still consider multiple emails inside a single file a recepy |
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for disaster. |
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The following is another cause for concern: |
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"This also means that you must not lose the dbox index files, they can't be |
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regenerated without data loss. " |
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