Re: consequences of migrating to maildir storage system

From: Bill Campbell (freebsd_at_celestial.com)
Date: 10/16/03

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    Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:47:42 -0700
To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org

    On Thu, Oct 16, 2003, Eric W. Bates wrote:

    >Anyone have unfortunate experiences as a consequence of converting mail
    >storage from flat file (mbox) to maildir? I'm concerned that the increase
    >in the number of files might cause problems with replication (we use
    >rsync), backup or even just running out of inodes.

    How long is a rope?

    We've been using Maildir with courier-imap on some reasonably large systems
    with excellent results. Of course one must be sure that the file system(s)
    involved have sufficient capacity to handle the expected load.

    Maildir has been very effective at ISPs where customers may not be checking
    their mail, or otherwise have rather ancient stores. If the ISP's policy
    states that mail older than N days will be removed, then a simple find can
    clean out the old mail:

            find /home/*/Maildir -type f -mtime +$N | xargs rm

    Bill 

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