[Exim] Re: Lots of mail boxes.

In article <20020119084633.GF56063@???>,
Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@???> wrote:
>+++ Jason C. Leach [exim-users] <18/01/02 18:49 -0800>:
>> What do some of you do about having so many mail boxes in a
>> directory. If you have say 1 - 3 000 does that not cause
>> file system problems?
>
>Use maildirs - and nhash or something. And lots of NFS / Netapp
>fileservers to taste, if you scale that high.

3000 mailboxes isn't much. We've got 10.000 mailboxes under
/var/mail, in maildir format. No hashing, no NFS/netapp. On
a simple Linux machine that also does a lot of webserving.

50.000 mailboxes and up, that's a lot.

Mike.