On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:56, Rex Dieter wrote: > > yes indeedy - default compatible-but-horribly-slow mbox format would be > > an accurate description. > > When we changed from mbox to mbx mailbox format, we saw much improved > performance too (better file locking and seek-times primarily). I would > venture to guess the improvement in the same ballpark as when you > switched to cyrus-imapd (which uses MailDir format, I believe, which has > similar benefits) No, cyrus has it's own unique format and a delivery agent that must be used to support it. Dovecot can use MailDir though, and you can deliver that with procmail which you probably are already using. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx