On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 21:12 -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Wesley Craig wrote: > > On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: > >> Why does cyrus need it's own > >> structure for the mailboxes, which is similar, but not wholly > >> compatible, to maildir. Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same > >> disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), yet I see no > >> distinctive advantage for the cyrus mailbox format to maildir. > > Performance. I could go on & on, but that's the answer, basically. > actually, I suspect that Cyrus existed before Maildir and since Cyrus is a > 'black box' server there's no advantage to moving to maildir. > Also Cyrus has cache, index, and flags stored seperatly from the message itself, > which means that when these things are changed the message file itself doesn't > need to change. Yep, which is why the sealed mailstore is a good idea: meta-data. You can keep reliable meta-data if third parties can go in and muck about. > doign a quick google check on maildir it also appears that maildir is not as > standard as people think it is, it's defined almost entirely by the > implementation (DJB started it, but never worked to turn it into a standard for > others to use) ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
