Re: [Nolug] postfix, Maildir and non-$HOME delivery

From: Joey Kelly <joey_at_joeykelly.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:53:50 -0500
Message-Id: <200311032052.hA3KqE404410@vkh.joeykelly.net>

Thou spake:
>> I don't know about putting the Maildir in var; however, unless you've got
>> several hundred users, Maildir is going to be less efficient than mbox
>
>format
>
>> (which would be in /var/mail/$user), speed-wise.
>
>I think you are confusing mbox with mbx? There is nothing fast about mbox.

I'm quoting from the Postfix book. The issue is the fact that for smaller set
of users, the time it takes to traverse a maildir directory (and all those
individual files) is longer than it takes to parse a single mbox file. I
think the breakpoint is well over 1k users.

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