Hello,
to backup a mailbox, I would simply have to tar and gzip it. Mails are
stored in the numbered files and flags are stored in the cyrus-files.
But restoring these mails including flags is very complicated. I would
have to renumber them so they don't conflict with existing messages and
as there is no way to merge the old cyrus files with the existing ones,
all flags would be gone.
This leads to two points:
1. Why are message files names numbered and not randomized? Is it
because of the IMAP UID of each message?
2. Why aren't flags stored in the file name, too? I used to see that
with Maildirs and it is very clever: Flags are permanent and aren't lost
if the index is broken. Anyway, the index speeds up access to the flags
and the index can be rebuild from the flags in the filename. The
flag-structure might be adopted from the Maildir-specification.
Has this been suggested before and was refused for a certain reason? Or
should I contact the devel-list so they may include support for it?
Regards
Marten
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