Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Wil Cooley]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 00:39, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> It has:
> - a proprietary storage format (Courier uses Maildir)

It's no more proprietary than an MTA's mail spool or an SQL database's
disk storage.  The notion of proprietary is only a question if you
expect multiple applications to access the data, for which Cyrus
expressly not designed; otherwise, there are questions of locking issues
and enhancability.  With the Cyrus storage, it uses a database for
header indexes (which can be Berkeley DB, although skiplist is
preferable since it was designed for IMAP-specific operations and to
avoid the number of buglets that seem to plague BDB) and for the
'squatter' indexes, which allows very fast full-text searching on
messages.  The actual messages are stored in single files.  The
"application-specific" storage also allows them to implement some of the
extended capabilities defined in later IMAP RFCs.

Wil
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