On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> What I remembered was in section 3.6:
> 
>   By default all these message files are helf in a single directory
>   called input inside the general Exim spool directory.  Some operating
>   systems do not perform very well if the number of files in a directory
>   gets very large; to improve performance in such cases, the
>   split_spool_directory option can be used.  This causes Exim to split
>   up the input files into 62 sub-directories whose names are single
>   letters or digits.
> 
> While that doesn't directly contradict the above, it makes things a bit 
> unclear...

The paragraph above the one I quoted repeats that information. I suppose 
I should insert "amongst other things" at an appropriate point in the
above para, which is just overview rather than full spec.

[ I don't really want to put "see the full definition" every time I 
mention an option... :-) ]

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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