Any potential gotchas using Maildir with MailScanner?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

This isn't a MailScanner issue, but you are probably aware that
maildir gobbles up zillions of inodes on your mailbox filesystem,
and you need to plan for this...

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Mike McMullen wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:22:56 -0800
> From: Mike McMullen <mlm at LOANPROCESSING.NET>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Any potential gotchas using Maildir with MailScanner?
> 
> Hi All,
>
> I'm considering switching over from mbox format to maildir on our
> IMAP/MailScanner server. (We're small enough the two live quite
> happily on one box.)
>
> We use MailScanner/SA/ClamAV/Sendmail/Procmail. On a test box,
> I've configured sendmail/procmail/dovecot and they all seem to be working
> with maildir format just fine. I brought over about 20,000-30,000 emails and
> folders and converted them from mbox to maildir.
>
> Are there any potential gotchas to layering MailScanner et all on top of 
> sendmail
> /procmail with maildirs that I need to be aware of?
>
> If my testing continues to go ok, I'd roll it out on the production system 
> over the
> new years holiday.
>
> Any feedback or insight appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
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