Hi Timo, Thanks for your answer! Sorry for my ignorance. That was exactly the location I read it, but failed to notice that only mbox/maildir is mentioned there.
thanks, Alex. Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 22 Feb 2016, at 14:47, alex <alex.dove...@kerkhove.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've been testing mdbox with local indexes on our nfs based directors + >> multiple imap/lda/pop3 server setup. The performance is noticeably >> better than maildir with indexes on nfs, so I'd like to make this work. >> >> About the possible direction to other servers the wiki says that it will >> create a new index 'on the fly'. That is true, but after the index is >> recreated, Thunderbird (imap) re-downloads all the messages and sees all >> those messages as unread again! > > dbox format requires permanent indexes, so you must store them on NFS also. > Only mbox and Maildir formats can recreate indexes on the fly without losing > information. Is there still some documentation that talks about indexes being > able to be recreated from scratch, without mentioning dbox? I tried quickly > finding from wiki, but I only found the NFS page mentioning it and it > specifically said mbox/Maildir. I added "(but not dbox!)" as clarification. > Anywhere else?.. >
