Re: Hashed mailboxes ?

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>]

Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
>   Also, I did some tests on this, I found no problems with mail spools
> with 30,000+ mailboxes.  The time to open one file in a directory with
> 30,000 other files, is not that much slower than a directory with a 1000
> files in it.  This is somewhat os dependant though.

Some OSes can't have more than 32767 files in one directory.

I think moving to ~/inbox would be the way to go even without this
sort of limit, though.

--Arnt