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 -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
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