[Exim] Re: Lots of mail boxes.

+++ Miquel van Smoorenburg [exim-users] <19/01/02 10:17 +0000>:
> 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.

That's right. 3000 is fairly small potatoes. /var/mail/$user/ should do
very well indeed.

    -srs