> 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.
Our server : Sun Enterprise 4000 with 6 processors and 3 Gig of RAM,
mail spools : four RAID5-sets (2 x 16 Gig, 2 x 8 Gig)
20,000+ users, 20 Gigabytes worth of mailboxes
last Tuesday : 256898 POP3-accesses, 338 Gigabytes mailspool I/O
...
> For my own enlightenment, I'd be curious about the implementation of a
> maildir type of system. For future use of course.
Our central mailserver is scheduled for replacement/upgrading/revising
coming calendar year and unless we find an alternative message store
for Qpopper, it'll probably go out of the window.
Eric.
