IAMP servers in FreeBSD for ISP

[Brian Candler]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:31:22AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > The only thing I'll warn you about, it uses a proprietary
> > mailstore format, so if you ever migrate you'll need a converter. Just
> > a heads up so you know what you're getting into! It was quite fast and
> > handled heavy load well (until I experienced the corruption.)
> 
> I used to think that, until someone told me to actually look at the
> messages on disk.  Cyrus uses Maildir format for the actual messages. 

No, it doesn't. Certainly it keeps each message in a separate file; but that
by itself is not enough to be Maildir. djb's original spec for Maildir is at
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

> It keeps a bunch of extra databases for things like message status,
> message count, indexing and the like.  But the actual messages are
> stored as plain Maildir.

No.

> You can view all the messages with any text editor.

Yes.

Regards,

Brian.