Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:42:25 +0100 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> Cc: "David J. Orman" <ormandj@corenode.com>, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IAMP servers in FreeBSD for ISP Message-ID: <20060708214225.GB41178@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <37556.192.168.0.10.1152286282.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> References: <cone.1152240742.658037.2598.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <E3610BF5-85C3-4476-91D1-934C144DC1B4@corenode.com> <cone.1152243379.879114.2598.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <DA69AE85-65A7-4D2E-9D96-02AE4AD1CF69@corenode.com> <37556.192.168.0.10.1152286282.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:31:22AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > > The only thing I'll warn you about, it uses a proprietary > > mailstore format, so if you ever migrate you'll need a converter. Just > > a heads up so you know what you're getting into! It was quite fast and > > handled heavy load well (until I experienced the corruption.) > > I used to think that, until someone told me to actually look at the > messages on disk. Cyrus uses Maildir format for the actual messages. No, it doesn't. Certainly it keeps each message in a separate file; but that by itself is not enough to be Maildir. djb's original spec for Maildir is at http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html > It keeps a bunch of extra databases for things like message status, > message count, indexing and the like. But the actual messages are > stored as plain Maildir. No. > You can view all the messages with any text editor. Yes. Regards, Brian.
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