Re: Cyrus does *NOT* use Maildir

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Re: Cyrus does *NOT* use Maildir
by Steffen Hansen on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @17:37

I believe that the interviewer means that Cyrus IMAP stores messages as files in the filesystem -- just like MailDir.

But you are right that Cyrus does not use MailDir. It uses it's own storage format which is basically this: One file per message, filename is the IMAP UID of the message. In addition to that, metadata/indexes/etc are stored in small binary databases (skiplists, berkeley dbs etc...). The important issue here is that the message contents is not put one big blob somewhere.

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Re: Cyrus does *NOT* use Maildir
by Phoenix on Saturday 29/Jan/2005, @14:38

Aha. That makes sense.

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