On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:58:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've ben reading HOWTOs for qmail and courier-imap. The first one was: > > http://howtos.eoutfitters.net/email/ > > This HOWTO recommends using maildrop to transfer mail from qmail to > courier-imap. I was wondering why that is necessary. Wouldn't it be > simpler to just have qmail deliver the mail directly to the virtual > user's Maildir?
Because you can take advantage of Courier's Maildir++ quota mechanism. If you are building a large system where all the virtual accounts share the same unix uid, you can't use per-user filesystem quotas to enforce mailbox limits. Maildir++ keeps track of the total size of a mailbox (including all subfolders), in an efficient way which doesn't involve listing every single file in every single subdirectory every time a new message arrives. Regards, Brian. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
