Hi David, Please find answers bellow.
Kind regards, Adam ---------- Původní e-mail ---------- Od: David Myers <david.myers.24...@gmail.com> Komu: Adam <adam.ra...@seznam.cz>, Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org> Datum: 7. 10. 2020 8:44:28 Předmět: Re: Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot Hello Adam, and the dovecot list > Just a question, I hate to pollute the thread, so feel free to push these > questions into a new thread if deemed necessary. So as you can guess I'm a bit > of a newb here, so rather obvious questions are about to arrive.... > > As you are using GIT for your archive (which is a cool idea by the way) I'm > sure you are well aware that not all files types play nicely with version > control, my question therefore is : How do you plan to handle attachments ? I use git for everything including for example LibreOffice / Word documents. Git works just fine with binary files. You can't use text tools like "git diff" but... it works. > Also, although I appreciate the idea of using git, emails generally don't > 'change', but I guess that also depends on how you are storing them (single > email with links to previous / next ... etc, or as a single big file for each > specific thread). Although this is hitting my limits of understanding for how > dovecot works, so I probably need educating on this (a pointer to the docs > would > be good). As I mentioned in the first e-mail, I configured Dovecot to use Maildir format -> each e-mail is a single text file. Mail body + attachment(s) are in the same file, attachment(s) are Base64 encoded. > You seem concerned regarding the files that you are ignoring that you will > need > to 'recreate them', so why not do a complete git add . prior to adding them > into > the git ignore, then you have an initial state for those files too. But I don't want to store files that can be regenerated. I don't want to backup stuff, that doesn't have information value. > Final thought, what advantage do you envisage by using git as opposed to > simply > using a filter to select the files over a certain age, and place them into a > zipped TAR archive ? Although I guess you could eventually zip the git archive > too, and in the interim it would remain searchable by your users mail clients > whilt in git. I like to use git ;-). Tar will work just fine. In this use case the only real benefit of git is that it never forgets. Unless I delete whole .git directory, I can make a mistake, delete some e-mails (files), commit changes and rollback. I can't rollback if I delete tar archive. > Thanks in advance, and apologies once again for polluting your question with > my > own. David
