On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
Thanks for the confirmation.
You're welcome.
The recommended solution for mailboxes with aggregate size greater than 2GB
is to use mix format instead of a flat file format. Even if c-client were
updated to use the 64bit system calls, flat files (especially in
traditional UNIX format) do not perform well at multi-GB sizes.
That's true.
I'm glad that we are in agreement on this point.
If there is some compelling reason offered, I will consider 64bit support.
However, as of right now, I am highly skeptical that the benefit would be
worth the effort, especially since there is a superior solution for large
mailboxes available now ("superior" since it will always work better than a
large flat file).
Well, on a system where the mail setup is configured by the sysadmin, one's
only way to read mail might be an enormous /var/mail/$USER that has exceeded
two gigabytes.
Fortunately, this isn't true!
Nothing prevents the user from creating an alternative-format INBOX. The
simplest way to create a mix-format INBOX in Alpine is to save a message
to #driver.mix/INBOX and then exit Alpine. When Alpine is restarted, it
will see the mix-format INBOX and then automatically start transferring
messages there from the spool directory.
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