[wellylug] debian imap

[Kevin Dorne]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:43:52AM +1200, Donald Gordon wrote:
> 
> For 3.5GB of mail, you *don't* want to use mbox files.  And (AFAIK) uw-imapd only supports the mbox mailbox format.  courier-imapd or similar with Maildirs will be much faster.
> 
> donald

True, but if you go with maildir, be sure that the partition holding the files has a small block size.  Otherwise, that 3.5 gb could easily become 10 gb (unless all of your mail messages are fairly large).

-k