I am considering an upgrade to dovecot which uses maildir instead of mbox, will roundcube still function?
Justin Frydman wrote:
I am considering an upgrade to dovecot which uses maildir instead of mbox, will roundcube still function?
I've been using dovecot with maildir together with roundcube for over half a year.
In fact, roundcube only connects to dovecot via IMAP. Wether behind the IMAP there is mbox or maildir doesn't even matter much.
~Mik
minor correction,
it is correct as you stated that its the IMAP that is in between and handles the mail access but it does mater on whether it is a Maildir or mbox when it comes to performance, if you have a system with very high access you will notice tremendous performance difference between the two. this would lead to possible timeouts and the RC application to fail on individual calls, this is theoratical but very possible in high usage scenarios with poor disk/raid setup where the mail data is stored.
On 1/10/07, Michael Bueker m.bueker@berlin.de wrote:
Justin Frydman wrote:
I am considering an upgrade to dovecot which uses maildir instead of mbox, will roundcube still function?
I've been using dovecot with maildir together with roundcube for over half a year.
In fact, roundcube only connects to dovecot via IMAP. Wether behind the IMAP there is mbox or maildir doesn't even matter much.
~Mik
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BashLogic RoundCube wrote:
but it does mater on whether it is a Maildir or mbox when it comes to performance, if you have a system with very high access you will notice tremendous performance difference between the two.
So which of the two performs better under load?
~Mik
Justin Frydman wrote:
I am considering an upgrade to dovecot which uses maildir instead of mbox, will roundcube still function?
I've been using dovecot with maildir together with roundcube for over half a year.
I agree to this. No Problems here.
In fact, roundcube only connects to dovecot via IMAP. Wether behind the IMAP there is mbox or maildir doesn't even matter much.
In theory, yeah. But do you know Murphy? :) Greetings
Greetz
on many levels MailDir is more efficient and performs better, it does have some down sides but when compared to the performance and latency load generated when connecting to mbox, MailDir still excels, its better to have the MailDir hosted on a separate raid array preferably raid1 or raid10 for optimal performance.
MTA that use mbox or mbox go thru more processes when handling the mails, if a user has a mailbox with 100mb of data (mail), the mbox would always have to handle the single file storage in indexing, deleting, writing etc while as Maildir reads/writes directly to the designated filesystem directory saving resources and operates more flexibelly and efficiently. maildir with optimal filesystem and disk array would outbeat mbox anyday anytime on modern or older hardware.
regards BLogic
On 1/11/07, Michael Bueker m.bueker@berlin.de wrote:
BashLogic RoundCube wrote:
but it does mater on whether it is a Maildir or mbox when it comes to performance, if you have a system with very high access you will notice tremendous performance difference between the two.
So which of the two performs better under load?
~Mik
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On 1/10/07, Justin Frydman justin.frydman@gmail.com wrote:
I am considering an upgrade to dovecot which uses maildir instead of mbox, will roundcube still function?
Yes - been working for me for more than a year.
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