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From: "Jeff Huang" <jbhu...@scut.edu.cn>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 9:58 PM
To: "postfix-users" <postfix-users@postfix.org>
Subject: How to index maildir
Hi,my mailserver is postfix and the mailbox is set to /Maildir.
But I found if there are too many email in maildir,the imap is very slow.
Can we set the Maildir indexing?So we can accelerate to read/find the
email from Maildir.
that's a job of imap server, not mta (postfix). cyrus does it, dovecot too.
dovecot is more flexible - it cat keep those indexes on different partition
(ram disk maybe? ).
or - you can get a very fast filesystem - in my tests ext3 with default
setting won't work with 1000+ messages in one directory - 10-20 clients can
make it crawl. that's why we (where I work) still use NetApp filer.
cheers
vadim
Thank you.
Jeff Huang
2009-03-22
