Any potential gotchas using Maildir with MailScanner?

Kai Schaetzl maillists at CONACTIVE.COM
Wed Dec 28 16:41:42 GMT 2005


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Jeff A. Earickson wrote on         Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:46:08 -0500:

> 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...

And how? Smaller block-size on separate partition for the mail 
spool/storage? Do I need one inode per message?

Kai

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