On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:20:25PM, Will Yardley wrote: > as others have mentioned, this is most likely a filesystem limitation, > and not a problem with Maildir. would i be correct in assuming you're > using ext2fs? i have some of the same problems, but my mail is nope, reiserfs.
> (unfortunately) on a linux machine. i would bet that if i were able to > switch our office mailserver to freebsd with ffs / soft-updates that > performance would improve a lot. once one of the newer filesystems > becomes more robust and failsafe i would also expect improved > performance. > > Maildir is also better for POP3 / imap servers since it doesn't > necessarily have to stat an entire file just to find what it's looking > for. this results in a much lower load on the server if you have a lot > of POP / IMAP users. it doesn't stat a entire file but a entire dir, isn't ? > > this is really easy. just add a trailing slash after the folder name. > ie: > foo > becomes > foo/ > > procmail will take care of the rest. you should also remove the > lockfile since Maildir doesn't need it., so: ok, last question. Could I change my: find $HOME/mail -type f -print | grep -Ev '(outbox|trash|spam)' | sort | xargs > > William Yardley ---end quoted text--- thanks, binny -- > J'aimerais savoir quels sont les différences majeurs entre FreeBSD, > OpenBSD et NetBSD ? man diff -- Unknown °v° Benjamin Michotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _o_ web : http://www.baby-linux.net
