Quoth michael@??? on Thu, Dec 03, 1998:
> I thought about using OS quota, but I really do not want to create a UNIX
> user for each POP3 user, so I use exim quotas. I already found out that
> using Maildir, delivery gets very slow as the number of emails increases,
> because exim stats all files to calculate the mail box size. I guess that's
> something we have to live with. SMP machines will help to provide more CPU
> power per machine.
The bottleneck in calculating the mailbox size is the disk speed,
not processor speed.
Vadik.
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