From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 15:10:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7369E37B489 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:09:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dallben (pcp529856pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net [68.52.131.181]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GY000CS8YVYPJ@mtaout05.icomcast.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:09:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:09:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" Subject: Re: I Volunteer In-reply-to: <3D1226C6.1870F02F@pantherdragon.org> X-X-Sender: bandix@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: Jason Andresen , Evan Dower , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020620170155.P1108-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >Personally I'm all for courier-imap. IMAP and POP3, Maildirs, SSL, and >the ability to access both real and virtual mailboxes. See my other recent message about the security implications of running courier-imap. Also, maildirs are a mediocre idea for general use, and a horrible idea for high volume mail spools. The whole idea behind IMAP is for the mail to reside on the mail server, not a user's workstation. Maildirs eat inodes like nobody's business. If you're using FFS to host a fairly high traffic mail spool you'll probably need to newfs your filesystem with a /ton/ of inodes. The only solution is to use a filesystem which dynamically allocates inodes like XFS. Cyrus uses a much more efficient storage mechanism. Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net bandix@geekpunk.net ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message