[Sheflug] Change from Maildir Format

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm looking at ways of improving performance of a mail server.

Currently it seems quite happy until it the imapd (UW-Imapd) has to do some 
work fetching messages or moving messages into different folders, at which 
point top shows imapd using 80%+ CPU

I've done a little reading on this and it suggests that
1.  The actual imapd is probably OK
2.  The flat file standard mbox format is giving the problems, being 
inefficient to sort through and extract messages from.
3.  An alternative format mbx is better as it allows (more) random access

So ..  I'm looking at converting my users e-mail to mbx format. Anybody know 
how thats done ?

Also, I think the local sendmail uses procmail to deliver

Mlocal,         P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/| [at] qSPfhn09, 
S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,

Is the line form sendmail.cf

What do I need to do to procmail to tell it to deliver in mbx format ?


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