Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 100.4.3.1]
on September 09, 2008 04:28 PM
Hello! A quick thing, why do you use mbox instead of Maildir? There are huge advantages using Maildir instead of mbox. Because Maildir has a file per message (instead of all messages in a single large file like in mbox), you have a big advantage when it comes to large mail-bases. I use a local IMAP setup on my laptop as well, but since I cart around more than 12,000 messages (yup, I know I'm crazy) in their various folders, things are extremely slow with mbox. Maildir does not have the speed issues at all. Furthermore, Dovecot actually expects the Maildir format as it's default configuration, although it has been written well enough to auto-sense what's going on. Great piece of software! I migrated over to Dovecot from the Courier IMAP server, and I am very happy with it's performance.
Just as an aside, here is what I use:
(1) getmail instead of fetchmail (I don't like what fetchmail does to mail headers)
(2) Procmail to filter everything through into their respective mail folders (set up to do Maildir as opposed to mbox)
(3) Dovecot as IMAP
(4) Various IMAP clients (mostly Thunderbird, sometimes Kmail, Evolution, Claws or whatever I'm testing at a particular point in time).
Furthermore I use Google Desktop to index the lot through Thunderbird. The whole shebang makes a comfortable way to deal with all my multitudes of sins (mainly log messages from the various systems I maintain).
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 100.4.3.1] on September 09, 2008 04:28 PMJust as an aside, here is what I use:
(1) getmail instead of fetchmail (I don't like what fetchmail does to mail headers)
(2) Procmail to filter everything through into their respective mail folders (set up to do Maildir as opposed to mbox)
(3) Dovecot as IMAP
(4) Various IMAP clients (mostly Thunderbird, sometimes Kmail, Evolution, Claws or whatever I'm testing at a particular point in time).
Furthermore I use Google Desktop to index the lot through Thunderbird. The whole shebang makes a comfortable way to deal with all my multitudes of sins (mainly log messages from the various systems I maintain).
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