From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 2:27:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from antares.gecadsoftware.com (antares.gecadsoftware.com [193.230.167.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0A8937B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from teo@gecadsoftware.com) Received: (qmail 29738 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2001 09:27:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO taz.gecadsoftware.com) (193.230.245.17) by antares.gecadsoftware.com with SMTP; 14 Jun 2001 09:27:37 -0000 Received: from teo.gecadsoftware.com ([193.230.245.169]) by taz.gecadsoftware.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id MY8T902F; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:25:00 +0300 Received: (qmail 8492 invoked by uid 500); 14 Jun 2001 09:24:57 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:24:57 +0300 From: teo@gecadsoftware.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: postfix && Maildir Message-ID: <20010614122457.A8391@gecadsoftware.com> Reply-To: teo@gecadsoftware.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from scanner@jurai.net on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:58:08AM -0400 Organization: GeCAD Software Comment: Worry less, RAV is watching! X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.16 i686 up 1 day, 17:45 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi scanner! On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, scanner@jurai.net wrote: > > > >And understand the negatives of using the Maildir format? > > > > No. Could you please point me to some documentation on that? > > Go look through the postfix mail list archives at www.postfix.org for > Maildir. Basically what it boils down to is if you have very little mail > Maildir is just as good as mail box format. But the more mail you have the > suckier Maildir performs. It's *alot* easier to deal with one large file > then a directory with tons of smaller files. Especially for searching. So > basically if you never go above a handfull of mail it won't matter to > much. But the more you throw at Maildir the worse it gets. well, least it claims to be more reliable http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#maildir-delivery -- teodor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message