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diff --git a/doc/wiki/MailboxFormat.Cydir.txt b/doc/wiki/MailboxFormat.Cydir.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9882bbf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/wiki/MailboxFormat.Cydir.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Cydir +===== + +This mailbox format is very similar to Cyrus IMAP's internal mail store: + + * Messages are stored in "<uid>." named files + * Cyrus's 'cyrus.index' is equivalent to Dovecot's 'dovecot.index'. Dovecot + however also requires 'dovecot.index.log' for its indexing to work. + * Cyrus's 'cyrus.cache' is equivalent to Dovecot's 'dovecot.index.cache'. + +Cydir is a very simple format internally. It relies on Dovecot's <index files> +[IndexFiles.txt] completely for its functionality. If the index files are lost, +all the message flags are lost. Currently the code can't even rebuild index +files if they're lost. + +Cydir is mostly meant to be used for benchmarking and stress testing index +handling code. Its code is small and simple, so it can also act as an example +for writing new mail storage backends. + +(This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42) |