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Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes
IMHO (and lot's of other people) sendmail is "outdated".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
>
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