On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:46 PM, J E Lyon <role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com> wrote: > > When I first saw you mention hashing, I misread it as some sort of hash-table > approach to large directories that I wasn't aware of, or something . . And > now I've read the Dovecot documentation, I see what you're talking about! > > Why are you bothered about using the hash, instead of just splitting on the > first letter of the existing account name? Is it to more evenly randomise the > distribution of accounts? > > The advantage of the username "first letter" approach, or returning hardcoded > locations from userdb (as per Timo's suggestion), is that you can more > readily move the directories manually during a very short period of downtime, > I'd have thought? > > > ~ James.
Thank you, this is a valid suggestion, especially since it could be done directly with some SQL magic in dovecot config file. I will consider this option !
