On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 26.2.2010, at 3.50, Terry Barnum wrote: > >> I looked at the wiki on dbox but shied away from it because the >> compatibility matrix said postfix didn't like it. Did I read that wrong? > > You need to be delivering mails with Dovecot LDA when using dbox. And that > might help improve performance even when you're using maildir.
Thank you Timo. Sorry, my newbie misunderstanding of postfix and dovecot. I think I now understand the compatibility matrix to mean that postfix doesn't work with dbox or mdbox formats natively, it must use dovecot. > With v2.0+ mdbox will probably work very nicely. dbox (with v1.x or v2.0) > still uses one file/message and I guess if you had trouble with 5k+ messages > in a mailbox with Maildir, you'll probably hit the same slowness with dbox. The 500MB+, 5k+ message problem is with another mailserver not running postfix/dovecot. It's the reason I've started investigating postfix with your software and so far I"m very happy. Thanks, -Terry
