On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:44:03PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:30:12 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > this is what maildir format is. A maildir is a directory with lots of > > text files in them. each text file is a single email with all its info > > intact. > > My setup (for a long time) (optional fetchmail), postfix - spamassasin, > then what gets left in /var/mail gets brought in peroidcally with > Sylpheed. > > Most emal sent to me goes right to postfix and then after spamassassin > to either a spam folder or to /var/mail. > > Sylpheed keeps alll the messages underneath .Mail, one file per > message, text format. > > I used to use KMail, which was originally set to keep all the mails in > one huge file. Not as good, and for instance would never shrink the > file when messages got deleted - the mail folder would just keep > gettting bigger and bigger. My first experiences with trying to coax > Kmail into handlnig messages better (one file per message) didn't prove > very fruitful then, so I switched over to Sylpheed. Currently, I have > over 51K files in there. I've had maybe over 70K at one time but have > managed to delete a bunch :). > > On this box Sylpheed can get realy bogged down when loading messages > into a folder that already has this many messages in it. Simply > deleting a message takes a few seconds. It'll get worse as more and > more messages get dumped into that folder. Perhaps, if some database / > index was integrated, this might be a bit more livable.
If it's not sylpheed looking at all the mail files, but instead the file system that's having troubles, you might cocsider the reiser file system. It is said to be really good at directories with huge numbers of small files, being based on data-base concepts. > > > > many many many many large (really large) mail solutions are handled by > > linux machines. What you are trying to do can surely be done and most > > google/gmail and other mail indexing for sure. glimpse and/or swish++ > would help things out quite a bit (more notably, I would think, in > "find text in message" situations). > > > A > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
