[ale] Indexing and searching very, very large Maildir

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 13:31:32 EDT 2008


Ouch! Migrating will be a challenge. There is a tool for storing email
directly into postgresql called dbmail . Postgresql has limits based on
system architecture (64-bit) and drive space so the limits are way up there.

The challenge will be the migration.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:06 AM, John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>
wrote:

> Guys,
>
> We have a very large directory in Maildir format that we need to
> index, search and then view messages within. Large as in 672 Gigs and
> growing. We used to use mairix, but it started choking at around the
> 200G mark.
>
> Does anyone know of a tool, either open or commercial, that can do
> this effectively? We have a budget for it...
>
> Thanks!
> John
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