On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 19:20 -0500, Bill Diamond wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Feizhou" <feizhou at graffiti.net> > > >> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:58:20PM -0500, Alain Reguera wrote: > >> > >>>Thank for clean my doubt about cyrus' storing folders. > >>> > >>>Partitioning(in MB): > >>>/ 1.000 > >>>/boot/ 100 > >>>swap 512 > >>>/tmp/ 500 > >>>/usr/ 5.000 > >>>/var/ 10.000 > >>>/var/spool/imap/ 22.888 > >> > >> > >> You still want to have /home on a separated filesystem. You just don't > >> need it to be big. > > > > If he wants system users. In his case where this box sole use is mail > > (Alain please confirm) I don't really see a need for a separate /home if > > there is nobody to use it. > > If he's going to set this up for IMAP, then certainly putting /home onto a > separate drive, not just a separate partition, will be very beneficial. > This can enable him to do some pretty cool things, like using spamassassin > and procmail to automatically filter out spam into seperate folders. > > On my admittedly small setup, I also have scripts run that look for any > messages in the user's home maildir "Missed Spam" folder and "Not Spam" > folder. In the "Missed Spam" folder, I have it automatically rescore the > messages using sa-learn. In the "Not Spam" folder, it's a bit trickier, but > using formail along with spamassassin, I can reprocess false positives, > strip the headers, and redeliver them appropriately. ----- you must have been sound asleep through all of the discussion where he is using cyrus-imapd which doesn't do maildir, uses it's own method of delivery (not procmail), it's own filtering (sieve) and doesn't do home folders and thus your comments - though well intended have already been considered to be not germane to his setup. Craig