[Gllug] Exchange equivalents on Linux

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:53:24PM +0000, Casper Gasper wrote:
> On 02/11/06, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> >Philip Hands wrote:
> >[snip]
> >> Hula might be an option at some point, but I won't be touching it until
> >> they dump mbox format and start using Maildir instead (which is in the
> >> works apparently, which is an improvement over their previous "there's
> >> nothing wrong with mbox, and anyway Maildir is too slow" nonsense).
> 
> I attended a presentation by a hula developer a couple of months ago,
> and he specifically covered the mbox issue.  He claimed that ISPs
> couldn't use maildir as they would quickly run out of inodes, and he
> certainly didn't mention any shift to Maildir.

I don't think it's true that ISPs can't use Maildir - they probably
just don't know how / want to change.  FWIW,
http://www.postmaster.co.uk/ which I was involved in designing has a
very large number of users, and it uses Maildir++.

Rich.

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