On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote:
UW seems to like to write temporary copies of mailboxes to /tmp. We ran
into a problem where it would fill up /tmp and barf, causing a variety
of weird problems.
I am aware of that particular issue, but this does not appear to be it.
/tmp has
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, mike ledoux wrote:
my inbox has 23481 messages in it right now in a 495166727 byte
mbox--performance is fine with mbox ...
Really? Wow. Is that a single-user system where the whole mailbox can
fit into RAM, or something? One of our customers has been hitting numbers
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At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, mike ledoux wrote:
my inbox has 23481 messages in it right now in a 495166727 byte
mbox--performance is fine with mbox ...
Really? Wow. Is that a single-user
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, mike ledoux wrote:
I'm not using IMAP, and that INBOX is one of the main reasons why I'm
not--I've yet to find an IMAP server that is capable of dealing with the
way I use mail.
s/use/abuse/ ;-) I question whether any mailbox with that many messages
in it can really
Benjamin Scott wrote:
We've been considering Cyrus IMAP, maildir format, and possibly a better
filesystem (ReiserFS, most likely).
I've been using the Courier mail system for a few months now with
Maildir format, and it has solved a lot of performance issues. The
nice thing is that it
mailboxes (was: rfc2505)
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:55:46AM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, mike ledoux wrote:
[snip]
I don't know if ReiserFS solves the 'many small files' problem, but I'm
pretty sure I saw people on the mutt list complaining about
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:35:33PM -0500, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
[snip]
locally so the server doesn't need to process them every time. You
also don't have to use the entire Courier system. You can individually
get the IMAP server, the webmail system, and the filtering system
(maildrop).
