tisdagen den 11 februari 2003 07.46 skrev Martin Fahrendorf: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003 20:21 schrieb Oden Eriksson: > > måndagen den 10 februari 2003 20.00 skrev Luca Olivetti: > > > David Walser wrote: > > > > From what I read, it looks like Cyrus does use Maildirs, it just > > > > doesn't store them in /home/$user > > > > > > No it doesn't, it has its own message store (one file per message and > > > the metadata is stored in various databases). > > > The phisical format of the mailstore doesn't matter though, you're > > > supposed to access it only through imap. > > > > Hmmm, this is sounding more and more like MS exchange, as easy to mess > > up... > > Not realy. The database only holds redundant information of the mailheader. > The E-Mail ist stored almost unchanged as plain text file (one mail in one > file - similar to maildir). the loss of mail is nealy impossible (assuming > a valid backup is availible). The database can simple be rebuild by a > command. Only the acl and the quota stuff can get lost on a heavy database > damage.
Ok, thanks. However I won't touch this software as I'm happy with bincimap and courier-imap. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com
