[Dovecot] plugin problem

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Oct 1 23:01:42 EEST 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 12:44 -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote:

> Really? I found the downside of using signatures much worse than not
> using them:
> 
> If the backend is mysql, eventually, we have to clean, and optimize the
> signature tables... And the optimization locks the table. Needless to
> say, all inbound mail can't be written to the signatures table.
> 
> Now, if you have a lot of users, your table optimization could take
> hours to finish. Postgres has the same problem if you use a 'vacuum full'.

Ah, yeah, that could be a problem. I use css at the moment so each mail
signature is a single file it simply blows away when no longer needed.

Right now I'm looking into migrating to crm114 for the fun of it ;)

johannes
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