[Dovecot] Disk busy issues

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri Dec 4 18:36:08 EET 2009


On 12/4/2009, Michael Durket (durket at highwire.stanford.edu) wrote:
> Would people
> on this forum (who probably deal with larger numbers of users and mailboxes than my
> system does) recommend that I switch the mailboxes over to Maildir format to alleviate
> the disk busy problems? Are there any issues to watch out for when converting mailboxes
> from mbox to Maildir format? 

Absolutely... maildir imho is much better, except maybe for long term
archival that is infrequently accessed...

I would also strongly encourage you to uypgrade to 1.2.8...

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Best regards,

Charles


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