Cyrus - Upgrading flat mail to DB3

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Matthew Tagg wrote:

> But what about all the other files (the msgs)?

These do not need to be converted.

> My understanding is that it was meant to gather them all up and store
> them in a DB.

Nope.

> Whoops! Ok though my problem still is I didn=92t know which specific fi=
le
> it considers as a flat DB, since flat =3D multiple files (messages).

No, the messages aren't in kept a database backend.  "flat" refers to the
fact that the database is basically plaintext. (a "flat file" as it were).
Other database backends are db3 (Berkley DB) and skiplist (a cyrus
specific version that give better performance for certain applications
than either flat or db3).

-Rob

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