looking for Cyrus mail format documentation

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Phil Howard wrote:

> So this new message was be appended to the same FILE?  That sounds
> more like the old UNIX mailbox format.

No.  Same mailbox.

Two servers are in sync, both with a UIDNEXT of 1000 for a particular
mailbox.  They suffer a netsplit and both have an APPEND happen,
regardless of the mailstore implementation, they now both have a different
concept of what UID 1000 is.

> | Doing replicated IMAP stores (espeically geographicly distanct ones) is
> | not an easy problem.
>
> It's easy if every message is a separate file.

This is not true.  It has nothing to do with the implementation of the
mailstore.

-Rob

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