[Dovecot] mailbox size limit

[Bazy]

Nikolay Shopik wrote:
> On 17.11.2007 16:54, Bazy wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I was wondering... my Inbox is 1.3GB large, my mailbox size limit is 6GB
>> (6442450941). Other users have 500+ MB in their Inbox.
>>
>> I have about 27GB of mail. I'm running dovecot 1.0.7 now under Fedora 7
>> with postfix. I have no trouble at all, everything is working perfect.
>>
>> I use ext3 as my file system, and I store mail in maildir format.
>>
>> Will I have any inode, file system, issues?
>> Is anyone storing more then 27GB in maildir format on only one ext3
>> partition?
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is my dovecot -n output:
>>
>> # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
>> log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
>> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
>> protocols: imap imaps pop3
>> ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
>> ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/smtpd.key
>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
>> login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>> login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>> login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
>> login_max_processes_count: 512
>> mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/
>> mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
>> mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
>> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
>> mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota
>> mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota
>> mail_plugins(pop3): quota
>> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
>> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
>> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
>> imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail
>> imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail
>> imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
>> pop3_client_workarounds(default):
>> pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
>> pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
>> auth default:
>>   mechanisms: plain login
>>   passdb:
>>     driver: sql
>>     args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
>>   userdb:
>>     driver: sql
>>     args: /etc/dovecot-userdb-sql.conf
>>   socket:
>>     type: listen
>>     client:
>>       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>>       mode: 432
>>       user: postfix
>>       group: postfix
>> plugin:
>>   quota: maildir:storage=102400
>>
>>
>> [root:pts/0][~]# cat /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
>> driver = mysql
>> connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=mail_admin
>> password=XXXXXXXX dbname=mail
>> default_pass_scheme = CRYPT
>> password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE
>> CONCAT(SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',1)) = '%n' AND
>> CONCAT(SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',-1)) = '%d';
>>
>>
>> [root:pts/0][~]# cat /etc/dovecot-userdb-sql.conf
>> driver = mysql
>> connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=mail_admin
>> password=XXXXXXXX dbname=mail
>> user_query = SELECT CONCAT(('/home/vmail/'),
>> SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',-1),'/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',1),'/') as
>> home, 5000 as uid, 5000 as gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=',
>> floor(quota/1024)) as quota FROM users WHERE email = '%u';
>>   
> Hi,
> 
> What kind issues you thinking about? I'm storing currently about 40Gb of
> mails. You mean, run out of number inodes on your partition?

Yes, that's what I meant. Run out of inodes on that partition.