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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Hicks writes: >> The cache files store the precomputed UIDLs on messages in the mailbox, >> and some similar information, so that qpopper does not need to scan the >> mailbox every time it's invoked if there are no new messages. I'm not >> sure if you can disable it - there's probably a way - but if you do it >> will slow down your qpopper startup times and put extra load on your >> system. In general, caches are good, and these files are small so >> shouldn't be eating up unnecessary amounts of disk space. > >Actually, what you really want to do is to put the cache dir on another >spindle and then leave it alone - unless your temp-drop-dir is *truly* >small. This increases your throughput and splits the I/O load. > >For instance, on our main mail server with 2,200 users, the drop dir is >only a WHOPPING 20.2K in size... One thing to note is that those cache files can cause problems if you're not careful to delete them when you delete a user. If you don't do so, if you delete a user and then recreate it shortly thereafter with a different UID, the user won't be able to check their mail until the old files are removed. I wrote a patch that allows the .cache and .lock files to go in user home directories, if you want them there. - -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE8O3RtoayJfLoDSdIRAqL9AJ9+a0UK2efHn/O3SimyDg34uXqYEACghFST cEJn4sNiA0nvfZg8xfmcJ2M= =qMO9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
