well I havent done it with qpopper, but cucipop
works fine with hashes /mail/a/c/acrim , and exim
is simple to setup to deliver to that location,
off topic question which is better cucipop or
qpopper
iqbal
Kevin wrote:
>
> At 03:06 AM 8/20/1999 , Richard G. Duvall wrote:
> >So, the question of the day from me is: Has anybody on this mailing list
> >used the hierarcheal scheme of delivering mail, and had to recompile
> >qpopper? How about IMAPD that comes with the pine package?
> >
> >The reason I ask is that I do not see an option in any of the .h files in
> >qpopper3.0 that allow me to change the location of the maildrop to
> >/var/mail/u/us/username, etc...
> >
> >Can anybody help me out on this?
>
> Snip from qpopper's release notes.
>
> Added several mail spool access methods. If your site is large
> and you wish to improve mail spool file access you might want to use
> these. They require modification to the local mail delivery program.
> One method hashes the username into one of 26 possible directories,
> the other method creates a hierarchy off the name such as /m/ma/mark.
>
> So, the program supports it. It's just a matter of modifying the "local
> mail delivery progam", whatever that means. I've never tackled this type
> of setup before either. Anyone else have more info on this? URL maybe?
>
> ---
> Kevin
>
> --
> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
