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sde · 04-11-2008, 12:43 AM

so, how does one get 650,000 files in the first place? i had a user on my server who never checked their system account for the last year or so. their mail file got very big.

i recently installed dovecot, which puts each email into an individual file, instead of all emails in 1 file, and vua la. 650k message is now 650k files

04-11-2008, 12:43 AM	#9 (permalink)
sde Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: us.ca Posts: 4,397	so, how does one get 650,000 files in the first place? i had a user on my server who never checked their system account for the last year or so. their mail file got very big. i recently installed dovecot, which puts each email into an individual file, instead of all emails in 1 file, and vua la. 650k message is now 650k files __________________ testing 1 2 3