Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-27 Thread grarpamp
>> specified out there that applications could utilize... >> where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. > it is what you want No, actually right up there is what I was surveying. But you failed to grok that in your search for more pfft. I'm sure it's a nice day, go outside :)

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread grarpamp
> re: the last two posts I must admit giving yourself the local equivalent of your own lifetime email account is an interesting approach if you don't really need access to the raw message files on disk.

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread grarpamp
>> specified out there that applications could utilize... >> where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. > pff and you realized that the "not a file per message" is > exactly the solution for problems with tens thousands of It is *a* solution, not *the* solution, and obviously not

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread grarpamp
specified out there that applications could utilize... where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. > alternate you may use mdbox > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox Both of these hold all messages in a single directory. So sdbox would be no advantage there. And mdbox d

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-26 Thread grarpamp
>> I've always wondered if there's a maildir split >> specified out there that applications could utilize... >> where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n. > > what about shifting this problem to the storage layer? > Apart using SSDs, what about using having a striped array as a RAID 1+0 >

Re: OT - mail archive

2013-04-25 Thread grarpamp
> maildir format scale[s] quite well; pretty much the only > limitation is storage I/O. Depending on your FS and horsepower, anything over 1000 x (n * 10) files in a directory can start to sink you pretty quick. I've always wondered if there's a maildir split specified out there that applications

[meta] Postfix List Archives

2013-04-12 Thread grarpamp
Though I've used postfix for a while, I'm pretty new to the list. There seem to be some good ideas and solutions going through here. So I'd like to see what all I've missed :) Unfortunately online http 'archives' aren't at all useful or flexible. So are there plain text archives available I can dow

Re: Multiple recipient_delimiter address extensions?

2013-04-10 Thread grarpamp
hi. i've briefly reviewed some of this posted work and it seems reasonable. and refreshing to see work come from my simple query. so give the new option a go as best seen fit! thanks.

Re: Multiple recipient_delimiter address extensions?

2013-04-03 Thread grarpamp
> also note that the word used here, delimiter, is singular. There's a The current form is known, these are just ideas put out there. > Having migrated from + to - (reversed my polarity, I guess) I felt I've done - (qmail) to + (postfix) hurriedly in the past to avoid a meta issue. Other users m

Multiple recipient_delimiter address extensions?

2013-04-03 Thread grarpamp
Is there a facility or ways to configure postfix to recognize and process multiple recipient_delimiter address extensions? ie: recipient_delimiter = +, - There could be some interpretations and implementations of this with recipient_delimiter_method = ... a) 'all', treat all the characters as de