> John Henders writes:
> >
> > Better still to deliver the mail to the user's home directory and avoid
> > _all_ the problems of a common mail spool. Ever done an ls -l on
> > /var/spool/mail with 10000 user mailboxes in it? How many coffees did you
> > brew while you waited for it to complete.
> The efficiency of access to single files in very large directories tends
> to be getting better in modern systems. Both Solaris 2 and the Network
> Appliance fileserver seem to have coped OK with our 6000+ entry /var/mail
> on cus.cam.ac.uk.
Agreed, we're doing OK with 25895 entries! so it seems to scale
well. We've just undergone a large merge of mailboxes around the
country onto a single server -- so far all seems well.
We had to do a large batched SMTP deliveries yesterday, and with
>95% of mailboxes now on a local machine it was a breeze....
Cheers
Kuyper
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