deliver.db == 50MB

[Ken Murchison]

Tarjei Huse wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 17:46, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Mike Cathey wrote:
>>
>>>I just wanted to see if it was normal to see the deliver db get this
>>>big...
>>
>>It will get as big as you let it to.  Depends on frequency of prunning, and
>>the ammount of traffic through lmtp.  Mine is at 11MB right now.
> 
> Btw. lets say the database gets corrupt. Is that a problem, or could you
> just delete it and start over?

It won't break anything "badly".  You will lose duplicate suppression 
for those messages that have already arrived, people might get a second 
sieve vacation/reject response, and with 2.2 NNTP you'll lose the 
ability to fetch articles by message-id.

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