deleteing e-Mail, quota and dovecot

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Nov 9 08:48:12 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:43 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:50:00AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 09:05, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > I'm not sure how dovecot works internally, but I know UW-IMAP makes
> > > temporary copies of the whole mailbox when the user is deleting
> > > stuff... 
> [snip]
> > With mbox format there isn't much choice but to copy the whole
> > file to make any change.  
> 
> Now why would you say a thing like that?  ;-)
> 
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:17:25PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > Mbox is good for using less disk space and often faster searching.
> 
> Indeed.  Though some users argue that it is more convenient to search
> maildir, because you can use tools like grep and such.

For anyone that's interested, there's a useful tool in Extras called
"grepmail" that searches mbox-format mail folders. It can pull out mail
items by headers, body, date, etc. Very useful.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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