Re: procmail and Large File Support
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:54:09AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Ola Lundqvist dijo [Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:18:33PM +0100]:
> > Hello
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > I have several reports saying procmail does not support mbox folders
> > > > larger than 2GB. Questions:
> > >
> > > OT here, but WTF are people smoking, to have 2GB mbox files?
> >
> > Some people tend to have really large inboxes. I have had a number of
> > customers that have several GB inbox. They tend to get quite a lot
> > of attachments (reports etc) and do not have the time to delete mail.
> > It will grow quite fast.
>
> Ummm... And wouldn't it make more sense for them to switch to maildir
> instead of mbox? I wouldn't like to search for new mails in there.
Of course. We use maildir for all accounts. I was just commenting
on the fact that 2 GB mailboxes is needed, and quite often.
Regards,
// Ola
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