I noticed that some people have asked about hashed spool directories in the past. This means the spool is /var/mail/s/e/selsky instead of /var/mail/selsky
The attached patch against imap-2002e implements hashed spool directories (which are disabled by default). If there are any changes which would help this get accepted into the main distribution, please let me know. Cheers.
--- src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c 2003/10/04 03:51:51 1.2 +++ src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c 2004/01/06 05:25:52 @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ /* block notification */ static blocknotify_t mailblocknotify = mm_blocknotify; +static short spool_hash_depth = 0; /* 2 means spool is /var/mail/f/o/foo */ + /* Note: setting disableLockWarning means that you assert that the * so-modified copy of this software will NEVER be used: * 1) in conjunction with any software which expects .lock files @@ -820,7 +822,23 @@ { char tmp[MAILTMPLEN]; if (!sysInbox) { /* initialize if first time */ - sprintf (tmp,"%s/%s",MAILSPOOL,myusername ()); + int i; + char c; + + sprintf (tmp,"%s/",MAILSPOOL); + + for (i = 0; i < spool_hash_depth; i++) + { + /* deal with usernames shorter than hash depth */ + if (strlen (myusername ()) > i) + { + c = myusername ()[i]; + } + sprintf (tmp+strlen (tmp),"%c/", c); + } + + strcat (tmp,myusername ()); + sysInbox = cpystr (tmp); /* system inbox is from mail spool */ } return sysInbox;