[ This belongs in comp.mail.misc. ]
"Sebastien" == Sebastien Berube <sberube@zeroknowledge.com> writes:
Sebastien> 2. The more mailboxes you have, the slower the entire Sebastien> popping process will be. The reason is very simple, Sebastien> each pop process will spawn and read your mailbox Sebastien> directory. You have a highly deficient pop server implementation. The fork-on-connect model is dead. A well written threaded server can handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections. Sebastien> /export/mailboxes/j/o/h/n/johndoe.mbox That just moves the problem around. Traversing those intermediate directories isn't exactly a light-weight set of operations. Sebastien> Although this example is not good in the case where you Sebastien> accept usernames with 3 or less characters. A proper hashing algorithm would solve that. --lyndon