[ILUG] 2 quick mail questions.

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:05:35PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Thomas Bridge thought:
> Having said that - exim, sendmail/procmail and of course qmail all support 
> using Maildir format mailboxes.
> 
> Its not a bad idea to use Maildir anyway.

Interestingly, my ILUG mbox type mailbox is currently about 3Mb in size
with about 879 messages using an average of 3706 bytes per message.  Some
of these would be long messages but more would be short and would be
significantly less than 3706 bytes.  Now, with the default inode size of 
4096 bytes on an ext2 filesystem, each message in Maildir format will
take up at least 4096 bytes leading to greater disk useage for maildir
format.  Doesn't matter that much here at home but it could get
significant on a real mail server...

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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