Jim wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:41 (-0500), Kris Deugau wrote:
Jim wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:25 (-0500), Wietse Venema wrote:
Instead, use Maildir format with one message per file,
I thought about that once, but I decided I have too many e-mail
messages for that. (I don't
On 16.11.21 13:16, Jim wrote:
At first glance I wouldn't see that related to mbox vs. maildir, but
I've been surprised before.
if you only need to read header of each file (maildir), it should be faster
than read whole file (mbox).
yes, IMAP sometimes needs to read while mail file for its stru
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:41 (-0500), Kris Deugau wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:25 (-0500), Wietse Venema wrote:
>>> Instead, use Maildir format with one message per file,
>> I thought about that once, but I decided I have too many e-mail
>> messages for that. (I don't want
Jim wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:25 (-0500), Wietse Venema wrote:
Finally, if you want to keep lots of mail around, don't keep
everything in one huge mailbox file.
I actually have a bunch of huge mailbox files ;-)
(Yeah, way too much email.)
Instead, use Maildir format with one message
> "Jim" == Jim writes:
>> Instead, use Maildir format with one message per file,
Jim> I thought about that once, but I decided I have too many e-mail
Jim> messages for that. (I don't want to run out of inodes, nor do I want to
Jim> make file accesses too slow because of the number of files
Wietse,
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:25 (-0500), Wietse Venema wrote:
> Jim:
>> On Artix, the default is 5120. (Aside: in 1985, that would have
> Postfix has limits on everything, so that the mail system will not
> get stuck. It's really a bad idea to disable them.
I agree that changing it
Wietse Venema:
> Jim:
> > (This is really for postfix developers, but since I'm not allowed to
> > post this on the devel list, here it is here.)
> >
> > Background: I recently moved from Ubuntu to Artix. On Ubuntu, for
> > better or worse, mailbox_size_limit is 0, and I blissfully went around
>
Jim:
> (This is really for postfix developers, but since I'm not allowed to
> post this on the devel list, here it is here.)
>
> Background: I recently moved from Ubuntu to Artix. On Ubuntu, for
> better or worse, mailbox_size_limit is 0, and I blissfully went around
> using a large inbox.
>
> O
(This is really for postfix developers, but since I'm not allowed to
post this on the devel list, here it is here.)
Background: I recently moved from Ubuntu to Artix. On Ubuntu, for
better or worse, mailbox_size_limit is 0, and I blissfully went around
using a large inbox.
On Artix, the default
