Benjamin Michotte wrote: > it doesn't stat a entire file but a entire dir, isn't ?
with mbox, the POP3 / IMAP server has to stat a whole file, not just the new ones... each time someone connects. it also has to stat the whole file again if it is removing a message, etc. etc. since users tend not to remove stuff from their inbox, if you get users with 50M spool files, this can drive up the load. now of course i've pushed for quotas, but customers hate it when their mail bounces, so the People in Charge nixed setting like a 10 / 20 M quota in our case. switching to Maildir would probably result in some significant gains in this case, on machines with around 8-10k users. cyrus is also good for this sort of thing, but it's less standard and is a 'sealed' system. > ok, > last question. > Could I change my: > find $HOME/mail -type f -print | grep -Ev '(outbox|trash|spam)' | sort > | xargs what to Maildir? you could change it to -type d instead of -type f, no? -- William Yardley System Administrator, Newdream Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/gpg.asc
