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On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:31 +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Karl Lattimer wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> maildir is a terrible way to store email,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'd be interested to know why you think that (and what mail storage </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">method you would recommend).</FONT>
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Its a file on disc or collection of files which have no fast searchable index no redundancy, isn't active in memory all the time and generally is a fairly old fashioned way of storing email. DB4 provides a far more impressive way of storing message headers in a fast to load, fast to search, redundant index way.<BR>
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I would love to know what kind of disk lag you have for people who all store their mail on the same server using maildir as a storage format. I'd assume as soon as you get to around 100+ users and around 5k messages per person the disk would be under such heavy load that all users suffer as a result.<BR>
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Especially when someone sends a message to everyone with some office junk file thats 2Mb in size. I'm sure you'd agree that maildir is a really bad way of storing email.<BR>
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K,
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