[Dovecot] /var/spool/mail directory size and subdirectories

[Frank Cusack]

On July 19, 2006 3:49:17 PM +0100 David Lee <t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> to UW-IMAP ("c-client") to use subdirectories "/var/spool/mail/00/" to
> "/var/spool/mail/99/" based on a trivially simply "uid mod 100" algorithm.
> (Our uids are random; our usernames are not.)  Thus we had 100 subdirs
> each of about 200 entires.  Efficiency and performance vastly improved,
> and we've been running like that ever since.
>
> Now we are considering migrating to dovecot...
>
> Does dovecot do file creation/deletion in this (or similar shared)
> directory?  (And so would it be liable to the same inefficiency problems?)

If you are migrating, why not change to maildir in $HOME?

-frank