On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> What I remembered was in section 3.6:
>
> By default all these message files are helf in a single directory
> called input inside the general Exim spool directory. Some operating
> systems do not perform very well if the number of files in a directory
> gets very large; to improve performance in such cases, the
> split_spool_directory option can be used. This causes Exim to split
> up the input files into 62 sub-directories whose names are single
> letters or digits.
>
> While that doesn't directly contradict the above, it makes things a bit
> unclear...
The paragraph above the one I quoted repeats that information. I suppose
I should insert "amongst other things" at an appropriate point in the
above para, which is just overview rather than full spec.
[ I don't really want to put "see the full definition" every time I
mention an option... :-) ]
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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