On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:
The report is correct. The c-client library makes no attempt to use the 64bit system calls; and thus flat files are limited to 2GB.
Thanks for the confirmation.
The recommended solution for mailboxes with aggregate size greater than 2GB is to use mix format instead of a flat file format. Even if c-client were updated to use the 64bit system calls, flat files (especially in traditional UNIX format) do not perform well at multi-GB sizes.
That's true.
If there is some compelling reason offered, I will consider 64bit support. However, as of right now, I am highly skeptical that the benefit would be worth the effort, especially since there is a superior solution for large mailboxes available now ("superior" since it will always work better than a large flat file).
Well, on a system where the mail setup is configured by the sysadmin, one's only way to read mail might be an enormous /var/mail/$USER that has exceeded two gigabytes.
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