We switched to cucipop so we could take advantage of a "hashed" mail spool
dir. ie. mail for user "foo" would be deposited in /var/spool/mail/f/o/
(with 10-20 others) vice /var/spool/mail (with several thousand others)
for the purpose of speeding mail spool lookups. This will be a help when
you hit about 4-5k users on a single machine. Although qpopper will do
the same, I haven't done any comparison testing so I can't say which is
better.
It took a few scripts to:
(a) convert the passwd file
home dir has to point to /var/spool/mail/f/o
(b) create the hashed spool dirs
(c) move the existing mail to the proper location
None of them were rocket science to come up with but if anyone is
interested i'll make them available.
--earl
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Earl W. Sammons II 333 Office Sq. Ln. Suite 103
Email Administrator Virginia Beach, Va. 23462
Exis Net, Inc. http://www.exis.net
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Gene Wilburn wrote:
>I've been using the imap/pop daemons that come with RH5 with no apparent
>problems, but I've noticed that others on this list are using products
>like qpopper, etc.
>
>Wondered if you'd mind explaining the pro's and con's of using a different
>POP server than the one that comes out of the box.
>
>Gene
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