hi
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Scott Pilz wrote:
Using Qpopper, there is a way (that is soposedly better) for storing mail..
get rid of qpopper as soon as you can, will save you a lot of time.
you can save mail to /home/user/.mail using procmail, which is more
effective than putting all mailboxes in /var/mail, but qpopper is very
ineffective as it scans the mailbox every time user connects.
About 3% of user population can use up to 99% of system resources (mostly
IO).
qmail-pop3d is much faster and supports Maildir format.
procmail can deliver to maildir.
Another interesting question, ... If you have, say 10,000 users on a box, and
each one has their own mail placed in /var/mail, won't that be somewhat SLOW
being so many names to be accessed in one directory? isn't it better to do
the above way?
10,000 boxes on the same machines with qpopper ??
good luck ;)
--
rgds,
serge
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