I think that would be a great idea.
I've heard different stories about using maildir format. Mostly, of the
negative aspect (allegedly) of using this on a high I/O mail system due to
it using individual files -- I can't recall the caveat.
_F
At 05:12 PM 12/8/2000 -0800, Sergiy Zhuk wrote:
>hi
>
>follow-up about qpopper's performance:
>
>Some people on the list suggested using qmail with its own POP3 daemon.
>The key here is the "maildir" mailbox format.
>If qpopper could understand that format, we could remove most of performance
>bottlenecks like locking (there's *NONE* with maildir format), reading
>the entire mailbox to list messages, rewriting the entire mailbox to update
>status etc.
>You don't even have to use qmail for delivery, since a very popular procmail
>can deliver to 'maildir' type mailboxes since v3.14.
>procmail is pretty often used as LDA for sendmail and other mailers for
>filtering.
>
>Any plans to implement this, any volunteers ? ;)
>
>thanks
>
>--
>rgds,
>serge
