At 7:52 AM +0100 7/27/05, Robin Bowes wrote: ... >I'm now using /home for other things, e.g. /home/apache has all my >websites, /home/vpopmail has all my mail, and I've used up all my inodes. It seems to me that there are also a lot of files in your home directory; might they also be email? I think what you need is an email program that uses mbox format to store the messages. Each mbox file can contain thousands of messages (or more). Mbox is just all the messages concatenated in one file, with a blank line between, and a standard first line to each message. For efficiency, it needs a second index file. Many bogus complaints about it exist, but you are finding out now why putting each email in a separate file is not a good idea (just good for demoware). There are other proprietary formats to keep multiple messages in single file, but its often easier to import into them than get the messages back out when you want to switch to another email program. All: Robin seems to be using Thunderbird, which I google as using mbox format, so why is he having inode troubles? Uhh, I'm new to all this, so I don't quite get where vpopmail comes in. Would he have 2 copies of each email, one in Tbird and another in the vpopmail directory? All: Would a loop device volume (man losetup) to store his email be the simplest way out of this mess? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
