On 28.6.2012, at 17.43, Gary Mort wrote:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox
To make life easy, I'll stick with just single-dbox as a start, however
multi-dbox would be doable.
With dbox, the only thing that I need to change is the alternate storage
model:
An upshot of the way
On 28.6.2012, at 20.14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
An upshot of the way alternate storage works is that any given storage
file (mailboxes/folder/dbox-Mails/u.* (sdbox) or storage/m.* (mdbox)) can
only appear *either* in the primary storage area *or* the alternate storage
area but not both — if the
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote:
On 28.6.2012, at 17.43, Gary Mort wrote:
First I want to add AWS S3 as a storage option for alternate storage.
Then instead of the above model, the new model would be that email is
always stored in alternate storage, and
On 28.6.2012, at 20.55, Gary Mort wrote:
The indexes have to be in primary storage.
True, but the data they are based on I'm assuming does not include the full
email message, just a few key pieces:
uniqueid, subject, from, to, etc.
For an always running server, the indexes are always up
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote:
On 28.6.2012, at 20.14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
An upshot of the way alternate storage works is that any given storage
file (mailboxes/folder/dbox-Mails/u.* (sdbox) or storage/m.* (mdbox))
can
only appear *either* in the
On 28.6.2012, at 21.04, Gary Mort wrote:
mdbox though is different, multiple messages are stored in a single file.
The index indicates in which file each message is located. When the data
is moved to alt storage, the filename can change in which case the index is
updated.
IE:
On 2012-06-28 2:04 PM, Gary Mort garyam...@gmail.com wrote:
That's probably due to the different structures they use. sdbox
can safely use either because each email message has a unique
filename, and if it exists in both places it doesn't matter.
Eh?? Sdbox is like mbox - one file per
On 2012-06-28 4:22 PM, Alex Crow ac...@integrafin.co.uk wrote:
On 28/06/12 20:28, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-28 2:04 PM, Gary Mort garyam...@gmail.com wrote:
That's probably due to the different structures they use. sdbox
can safely use either because each email message has a unique
