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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:15:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      <scanner@jurai.net>
To:        Patrick <patrick@eahd.or.ug>
Cc:        Daniel Harris <dannyboy@worksforfood.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: postfix && Maildir
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106131213510.67336-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106131923260.17281-100000@spice.eahd.or.ug>

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> Well, for starters, I am not planning on having that much mail but so that
> this can scale...
> 
> What about if I had say 100 or so directories with about 100
> subdirectories each with a max number of files per directory so that each
> directory does not get more than a certain number of files in it?

What about just using mbox format and not worrying about it? It's *much*
easier to append to one file then the overhead of doing thousands of files
in thousands of directories. KISS principle.

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