Racer X writes:
> This is just sorta brainstorming right now, I haven't really thought about
> it that much but I'd like to hear what others have to say. I have to deal
> with postmaster mail here, and a couple times I've arrived to 20,000
> messages in my Maildir. Trying to deal with that takes down our NFS server
> (we store Maildirs on a central server), and although I can get on the
> machine itself and run some shell scripts to wipe most of it, if a customer
> ever got that much mail we'd have problems, so I'd like to find a way to
> ensure that the Maildir won't get unmanageably big.
<shrug>
Implement some kind of a quota mechanism to bounce mail once maildir size
reaches some upper limit.
>
> shag
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thu 15 Jul 1999 14.54
> Subject: Re: Advantages with qmail and using reiserfs???
>
>
> > John Gonzalez/netMDC admin writes:
> >
> > > Maildir works (about as best as can be expected) over NFS
> > >
> > > But that really is a solution _I_ wouldnt like to go with.
> > >
> > > There also might be some kernel hacking you can do that can cope better
> > > with many filenames in one directory, etc.
> >
> > If you're only talking about Maildir, the solution to a large Maildir is
> to
> > refile the mail into multiple folders.
> >
> > I do not believe that using Maildirs uses up more inodes than an average
> > filesystem. Most filesystems allocate one inode per 4096 bytes, which
> > happens to be approximately the average size of an E-mail message. My
> > experience with Maildirs is that they scale to about a thousand messages
> on
> > a system with average CPU horsepower and reasonably fast SCSI disks.
> > Anything more than a thousand messages, and you should start thinking
> about
> > folder management.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sam
> >
> >
>
>
--
Sam
