Hello all!
We have a qmail server with only 15 users on it, Qmail 1.03, Red Hat
7.0, no patches. Due to several shared IMAP accounts with 5k-7k messages
which are checked regularly we are having the IMAP server essentially
quit responding throughout the day. I believe this is due to the EXT2
file system not handling the number of messages in the maildirs, my
current understanding leads me to the idea of moving only the /home
partition where the Maildirs are located to ReiserFS. I don't really
understand the intracacies of all the patches listed at
www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-tuning.html - what I am hoping is that by
only changing /home and not the queue/working directories I can not deal
with any of the troubles listed that require optimization and patching.
Would this work, or is there an issue in transfering mail from the queue
to the Maildir?
I don't want to break RFC standards, apply unneeded patches, or
otherwise hurt our email server to fix a different problem. What other
ways would you deal with this issue, that is other than having users
remove/file their messages better?
Thanks
Matt Simonsen
