I’ve decided that it’s time to move from mbox to Maildir. Mailboxes are getting larger every year, and so serverload continues to increase. During scheduled maintenance the end of March, I’m converting all mailboxes to Maildir format.
I’ve run into a number of issues during some preliminary tests :
The IMAP / POP3 part can be handled the simple way: Lock the user during the conversion, then re-enable user after the conversion is done. The incoming part is a more challenging issue : You don’t want to shutdown the mailserver during the while conversion. You can’t tell sendmail to delay mail during a certain time by default.
Today I’ve move all my personal stuff to a VPS. It let’s me run my own software (although I manage our company’s web server, I can now run several services I’m not otherwise able to use).
Email wil follow today, and so will be a restoration of all the personal project pages. I’ve lost some source due to a disk crash (and the stupid assumption that I’ve had backups), but I’ll put that info on the projectpages themselves.
We, at JDI, are used to working in vi. When we started 11 years ago, most IDE’s wheren’t existant, and with 3 people with their own OS and configuration developing locally wasn’t an option. So we just shelled in, vim’ed all of our files, and created nice things that way.
Today, when the compay has grown, this isn’t an option anymore. People want an IDE, mainly for code completion and debugging. We run multiple OS’ses (Windows, Linux, Mac OS), so everything windows-only isn’t an option.