Erik Enge wrote: > Hi. > > I have been trying to figure out what formats Cyrus can store mail in, > but even though I have gotten hints here and there I have found no hard > information. > > Does it use Berkley DB to store the mail? How about maildir/mailbox? > > Thanks, > > Erik Enge.
Cyrus stores the messages themselves in individual text files, unchanged from the way they are passed in via LMTP. It also creates various indexes, seen databases, etc., in the mail folders, and the formats of some of these can be chosen at compile time (flat textfile, skiplist, BDB).
