On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:48 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:57 PM -0700 Craig White > <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > > > Once you've used cyrus, you'd never go back to uw-imap or dovecot > > > > Each e-mail is stored as a separate file, not a nasty single mbox file > > that gets large. > > Note that the competitors can use maildir, so this isn't a Cyrus-only > feature. ---- actually, cyrus doesn't use maildir but it's not altogether that different in concept...but of course, there really is no standard definition for maildir but what was implemented by vpopmail seems have been adopted by courier and dovecot ---- > But AFAIK this comes at a storage penalty: Many small files will waste > space approximately equal to half the storage allocation unit times the > number of files. Or is there a way to mitigate this on ext3? (I don't want > to go to Reiser.) ---- Reiser seems to have lost most of it's lustre but there are of course other types of storage. Craig