Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-27 Thread grarpamp
re: the last two posts I must admit giving yourself the local equivalent of your own lifetime email account is an interesting approach if you don't really need access to the raw message files on disk.

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.04.2013 04:32, schrieb grarpamp: specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. pff and you realized that the not a file per message is exactly the solution for problems with tens thousands of It is *a* solution, not

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-27 Thread grarpamp
specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. it is what you want No, actually right up there is what I was surveying. But you failed to grok that in your search for more pfft. I'm sure it's a nice day, go outside :)

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.04.2013 23:03, schrieb grarpamp: specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. it is what you want No, actually right up there is what I was surveying. But you failed to grok that in your search for more pfft. I'm sure

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread post...@netorbit.it
On 26/04/2013 00:15, grarpamp wrote: maildir format scale[s] quite well; pretty much the only limitation is storage I/O. Depending on your FS and horsepower, anything over 1000 x (n * 10) files in a directory can start to sink you pretty quick. I've always wondered if there's a maildir split

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread grarpamp
I've always wondered if there's a maildir split specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. what about shifting this problem to the storage layer? Apart using SSDs, what about using having a striped array as a RAID 1+0 layout,

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread Wietse Venema
post...@netorbit.it: On 26/04/2013 00:15, grarpamp wrote: maildir format scale[s] quite well; pretty much the only limitation is storage I/O. Depending on your FS and horsepower, anything over 1000 x (n * 10) files in a directory can start to sink you pretty quick. I've always wondered

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 26.04.2013 13:20, schrieb Wietse Venema: post...@netorbit.it: On 26/04/2013 00:15, grarpamp wrote: maildir format scale[s] quite well; pretty much the only limitation is storage I/O. Depending on your FS and horsepower, anything over 1000 x (n * 10) files in a directory can start to sink

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread grarpamp
specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. alternate you may use mdbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox Both of these hold all messages in a single directory. So sdbox would be no advantage there. And mdbox does not

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.04.2013 21:24, schrieb grarpamp: specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. alternate you may use mdbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox Both of these hold all messages in a single directory. So sdbox

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com: specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. alternate you may use mdbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox Both of these hold all messages in a single directory. So sdbox would be

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread grarpamp
specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. pff and you realized that the not a file per message is exactly the solution for problems with tens thousands of It is *a* solution, not *the* solution, and obviously not one of the

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 26.04.2013 21:24, schrieb grarpamp: specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. alternate you may use mdbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox Both of these hold all messages in a single directory. So sdbox would

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/26/2013 9:32 PM, grarpamp wrote: specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. pff and you realized that the not a file per message is exactly the solution for problems with tens thousands of It is *a* solution, not *the*

OT - mail archive

2013-04-25 Thread John Allen
I realize that this is off topic, but as there are more email experts assembled here than any where else I know of I have a couple of users who are using their maildir as online storage for emails (current and archival). They have done this on their own and are prepared to live with some

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-25 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 04/25/2013 08:56 PM, John Allen wrote: I realize that this is off topic, but as there are more email experts assembled here than any where else I know of I have a couple of users who are using their maildir as online storage for emails (current and archival). They have done this on

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-25 Thread grarpamp
maildir format scale[s] quite well; pretty much the only limitation is storage I/O. Depending on your FS and horsepower, anything over 1000 x (n * 10) files in a directory can start to sink you pretty quick. I've always wondered if there's a maildir split specified out there that applications