> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Heinlein > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 12:32 > > On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Chuck Campbell wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:14:06AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > >>> Does anyone know how to get procmail and dovecot to play happily > >>> together with mboxes? I'm on Centos 6.5, fully patched. > >>> > >>> I'm getting tons of lock timeouts which is killing performance. > >> > >> That is 1 of 2 reasons why we switched to Maildir. > > > > What was the second reason? Always looking for > justification to take > > up the line with my recommendations... > > I can't speak for Jason, but here are some of our reasons for > switching to Maildir (which works well with procmail): > > 1. Incremental backups are much smaller > 2. Large mailboxes aren't a bottle neck
That's it. 15 users, with 20 2GB+ mbox files with a daily change of a 100k+ was killing our backup effort by having to backup .6TB every day. And the load on the imap server was through the roof, now it averages a 0.01 > > Bruce Schneier recently quipped that sometime around 2006 he stopped > filing messages into named folders because e-mail searches became > faster than manually sort. Many folks now use e-mail clients with > pretty fast search features, so using mailboxes as a sort of > filesystem became inefficient -- so mailboxes (particularly the main > inbox) get large. Maildir is so much faster in that sort of > environment. > > (I'm a dinosaur, still using a CLI mail client, so I still prefer > folder-based organization -- but I recognize I'm part of a small and > shrinking minority.) > > > Are there any tools to convert procmailrc files to maildir > > compatible recipes? > > Changing destination names, and adding closing '/' characters is > really all that's needed. E.g., > > :0 > * ^List-Id:.*<centos\.centos\.org> > mailinglists/centos > > becomes > > :0 > * ^List-Id:.*<centos\.centos\.org> > .mailinglists.centos/ > > The closing '/' tells procmail to use Maildir. And we did this in the global procmailrc file: root@mail ~ # cat /etc/procmailrc DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/" MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir/" User .procmailrc can (but shouldn't) still put in mbox, but the inbox was the first to go to Maildir. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
