There were suggestions from our Engineering dept about implementing a
maildir type system. We have about 2000 accounts in /var/mail taking about
5 gigs of storage and rewriting to the tune of 24 gigs today.
They liked the idea but the customer (NASA HQ) is looking for a more
"Yahoo" like e-mail solution so that users from HQ who travel to the other
centers a lot can Browse to their mail instead of leaving a footprint on
someones desk or dragging a laptop around the country.
So it was shelved.
For my own enlightenment, I'd be curious about the implementation of a
maildir type of system. For future use of course.
Carl
At 08:21 PM 12/8/00 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>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
