2.0.17 mailbox corruption

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, NOLL Janos wrote:

>  Flat DB is not really on option, if there are many folder
> delete/modify/create actions, as the operations get slower and slower as
> the total number of folders (the mailbox file) grows.

Well, since the number of LIST operations on an IMAP server swamps the
number of updates, for 2.0 the only option is flat.

Note that flat is indeed a terrible format for systems that need larger
numbers of updates, for them I recommend upgrading to Cyrus 2.1 and using
skiplist.

Actually, I recommend that to everyone.

>  Someone on this list has posted a MySQL db patch, I'm currently
> evaluating that option. (Any chance it would be included in the next
> release?)

No.

-Rob

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