Re: [Exim] Best IMAP and POP Servers?

I use Linux and under Linux I use the Reiser file system which is far
faster accessing large directories that ext2/ext3 is. I recommend using
Reiser especially for maildir systems.

Avleen Vig wrote:

>I guess that depends on your definition of "better".
>You avoid locking issues on mail deliveries, true.
>However maildir directories cause many more disk operations as you have
>a lot more files to stat (potentially) and open/read/close.
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>So while maildir might be better after you reach the mbox threshold, you
>get to a point where maildir's own thresholds make it less better than
>mbox :-)
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