Peter Chen wrote:

> Dear Steve
>
> Sorry, just now I asked Bob instead of you the following questions:
>
> What are you using for SMTP? qmail or sendmail or something?

Sendmail 8.8

>
>
> What are you using for POP3? qpopper or what?

qpopper

> And do you hash your /var/spool/mail directory? Something like
> /var/spool/mail/f/o/foo mailbox for foo?

We modified both local.mail and popper to use a substring of the MD5 hash string
to create 256 sub directories. MD5 gives us a random distribution based on user
names. We get mail files like /var/spool/2f/joe.

My guess is that this scheme is good for about 120,000 users.


SG


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