On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:24:37AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. > > Well, they do in a way -- if you use IMAP from your ISP for example, you > don't > need local storage on your email device (not any of mbox, maildir, or > whatever). > > (I don't use IMAP (I use POP3), but I assume that if I were using IMAP as > described, I could save emails on my local device, but I'm not clear on that > mechanism / storage method.)
Thought I would just jump in. Dovecot has "single instance attachment storage" (SIS) as well as its own native mdbox binary format (multiple emails per file indexed efficiently). The SIS is a feature that I am really excited about since we have multiple user receiveing the same email - it really saves on storage space. Kind regards, Didar -- "I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power." [Caius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet 87-54 BC]