I'm having a problem with this situtation...
I have 30,000-50,000 email users. I want to setup their mailboxs like:
/var/mail/users/0/00/maildir/mailbox
The maildir holds about 100 users. Each user has the proper directory
as their home directory in /etc/passwd. I hacked Qpopper to allow for
mailbox
delivery, but I'm having problems configuring procmail to write to the
mailbox. I've create a .procmailrc and .forward file for all
directories.
I'd suggest that you get the very latest procmail (pre6 at last count)
which uses a new more configurable method of finding the default
mailbox: you can write the method in C. It comes with optional code to
support the (builtin qpopper) style
/var/mail/g/u/guenther
by defining MAILSPOOLHASH to 2. Defining it to 3 would give you
mailboxes of
/var/mail/g/u/e/guenther
etc. Is that enough splaying?
Philip Guenther
Unfortunately, the user's id are not unique until the 4th or 5th
character. Modifications to qpopper 2.3 work with the directory structure
(Less then 10 lines modified). I have been able to create and write if
world permissions are set but this is a significant security hole.
flatline(_at_)bc(_dot_)sympatico(_dot_)ca