I wrote:
> OK, I'm embarrassed to ask such a newbie question, but ... here goes.
>
> I run a small departmental POP server at work. It serves maybe, oh, around
> 70-100 people or so (just guessing). (So, to get ahead of myself a bit,
> we don't really have enough people - read: entries in "/var/mail" - for
> me to think that going to some two-level hash directory setup in the
> spool will help me with my problem very much. Read on ... )
I forgot to add something important: "/var/mail" is NFS-mounted onto most
every machine, as there are people still using things like the CDE "dtmail"
MailTool, and ELM, Mutt, Mush, and so on, to read their mail "directly"
over NFS. So, using "server mode" is, unfortunately, pretty much out.
(Yes, I know - it's an old, old setup that has been around for years.)
(If we're going to force people to use POP/IMAP or some other access that
doesn't let them get onto the server or NFS mount the spool, that'll have
to be done as part of the migration to the future e-mail setup, not now.)
Thanks,
- Greg
