Re: consequences of migrating to maildir storage system

From: David Raistrick (drais_at_wow.atlasta.net)
Date: 10/16/03

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To: "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@vineyard.net>

    On Thu, 16 Oct 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.

    If you're converting your mbox files to Maildirs, don't rely on
    mbox2maildir to handle everything. It converts all the messages fine, but
    file dates and message status gets lost.

    There are various solutions to this problem out there, or you can roll
    your own...sorry, I don't have any pointers off the top of my head, but
    google goes a long way. :)

    Other then that, the only issue I have is with pine. (anti-pine zealots
    may > /dev/null now.:) Once patched to support maildirs, it works
    ok, but has a few quirks that sometimes cause it to crash.

    If all of your users read mail remotely via imap or pop3, then
    /definitly/ make the switch.

    ...david 

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david raistrick
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