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Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes




Evgeny is right - Use either qmail or Exim which both support maildir
format instead of the outdated mailbox format. That's what we use. We have
huge inboxes and no performance problems.
Regards,

 - yba


On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Evgeny Zemlerub wrote:

> IMHO (and lot's of other people) sendmail is "outdated".
> There is so called "Second Generation MTA" like qmail, postfix, exim.
> 
> My favorite is qmail. On of the nice things about it, it's that he
> makes use of so called maildir format. Instaed of storing all the
> messages in one big mailbox, each message has it's own file, therefor
> operations like deleting one message is much faster.
> 
> I think that configuration like this might be more efficient in your case:
> Qmail (www.qmail.org)
> Vpopmail (virtual pops manager, http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ )
> Courier-IMAP.(http://www.inter7.com/courierimap)
> 
> Nice doc about how to install qmail : http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html
> (some of the programs used in this manual resides here: http://cr.yp.to).
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
>     Evgeny
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Oved Blass wrote:
> 
> > I have encountered a huge drawback of Sendmail (or the default imap daemon
> > of RedHat). I use imap to access the e-mail box of mails that are handled by
> > Sendmail. Since the mailbox is plain text file and not some kind of database
> > it takes a long time to delete or edit messages. For example, for 200MB
> > e-mailbox it  takes 5 minutes to delete a simple message !
> >
> > How is it possible to solve this problem? Will a better imapd implementation
> > will fix the problem? Or is it the end of Sendmail...
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Oved Blass
> >
> > FixFax - Get your faxes by e-mail
> > http://fixfax.co.il
> >
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