OS? File System? Definition of "large installation" (it's 6 figures to me). (and I don't want a home dir/user for that).
How are you delivering into the the hashs spools? And it sounds like it might be hardcoded writing into /var/spoo/mail/u/s. Look in the source (or makefiles). Quoting NetNITCO System Administration ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Greetings, > > I'm attempting to set up qpopper 4.0.4 on a rather large installation, > and ran into something kind of odd in the handling of .user.cache files when > using server mode and home-dir-mail. I'd like for the cache file to either > end up in the users's home directory (as /data/user/u/s/user/.user.cache) or > in a hashed spool directory (as /var/spool/mail/u/s/.user.cache) but cannot > get this to work. I'd like to avoid having several thousand cache files > stuck in the same directory - that would certainly add some overhead in > checking e-mail. I tried the options below (no runtime config file used) but > popper would then make the directory /data/user/u/s/user/u/s/ and then > error our saying it couldn't write to /var/spool/mail/u/s (which had not > been created!): > > ./configure --enable-home-dir-mail --enable-servermode --enable-fast-update > --disable-old-spool-loc --disable-reverse-lookups --enable-shy --enable-temp > -drop-dir=/var/spool/mail --enable-hash-spool=2 --enable-check-hashdir > > Any help on what went wrong would be appreciated. > > - Max > > > >
