Philip Hazel wrote: >> Besides the downside of using it in conjunction with queue_run_in_order, >> surely the majority of installations out there make use of >> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> split_spool_directory - so should it not be enabled by default since it >> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Have you any evidence for this? My (also totally unsubstantiated) guess > would be that "the majority of installations" are single-user or > small-company users of Debian boxes. I think we just don't know. >
I don't have any evidence, it was and is an unsubstantiated guess. I base my assumption on all of my installations (well over 100) which all have between 10 users and 500k users - I have always just enabled it. But you are correct we just don't know. >> is beneficial? >> > > It may not always be beneficial, though the difference may be small and > one is splitting hairs to argue about it. (e.g. a company with 100 > emails a day and such like). > > Changing the default in the code would suddently hit a lot of existing > installations, who might not know what is going on, even though it is a > self-sorting-out change. It's the kind of change which, if it is to be > made at all, should only be part of a major upgrade (something like the > Exim 3->Exim 4 upgrade) IMHO. > > I understand and agree with you, so enabled or disabled - I am happy with it. Heiko mentioned, it might be a good idea to add this configurable option to EDITME so that at least people who compile from src will have the option to enable it @ compile time - i agree with this. Thanks, Warren -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
