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Subject: Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?
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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014, at 8:37, Raghupathy, Kiran wrote:
> Looking for a best pracice storage config recommendations for qmail-
> maildir setup
> 

People still install qmail for new setups? (I'm genuinely curious)

I haven't looked at the FreeBSD port, but I assume that we provide a
healthy patchset, yes?

My suggestion for any maildir server these days would be ZFS + SSD ZIL &
L2ARC and LZ4 compression.