From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 12:19: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mighty.grot.org (mighty.grot.org [204.182.56.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FF937B406 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 12:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mighty.grot.org (Postfix, from userid 515) id 22D365E7E; Wed, 15 May 2002 12:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:18:52 -0700 From: Aditya To: O Senhor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix Message-ID: <20020515191852.GC44341@mighty.grot.org> Reply-To: Aditya References: <1021486097.2320.9.camel@ws-tor-004> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1021486097.2320.9.camel@ws-tor-004> X-PGP-Key: http://www.grot.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x6405D8D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:08:17PM -0300, O Senhor wrote: > Do you know about performance in postfix? I have on FreeBSD (4.5) box > running postfix and delivering mail in 65.000 mailboxes... I know about > maildirs... but, how maildir would help me??? The postfix delivery agent > simply can't do the jog. This is because a lot of entries??? maildir format puts each message into a separate, uniquely-named, file. That way there are no locking issues during or between delivery and retrieval. This means the delivery agent doesn't need to get a lock on a mailbox before writing to it, saving it time and io. I've used postfix quite succesfully to deliver to maildir-style "mailboxes" for a few years now without any problems, albeit not for 65K mailboxes. YMMV. Adi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message