On Wed, 30 May 2001 10:41:32 -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
>> >2) fast-update requires the poptemp (pop drop) files to be located on
>> >the same partition as the corresponding mail spool files.
>>
>> This conflicts with another motivation for using a different partition
>> for the temp drop: quotas. When a user gets above half his quota, he
>> can't POP anymore because the copy uses up more than his quota, so
>> administrative intervention is required. Putting the temp drop on a
>> filesystem with no quota allows a user near quota to reduce the size of
>> his mailbox.
>
>It's a good point, but it conflicts at a very fundamental level with
>the whole nature of the fast-update optimization.
I wonder how hard it would be to make this dynamic? For example, use
fast-update only if the mailbox is below half-quota.
Ken
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