[Dovecot] mailbox size limit

[Bazy]

Nikolay Shopik wrote:
> On 17.11.2007 18:11, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
>> On 17.11.2007 17:56, Bazy wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>   
>> I don't think so.
>> If /V/ is the volume size in bytes, then the default number of inodes
>> is given by /V//2^13
>> That's more than enough.
>>
> should look like this -  V/2^13

Got it :) thank you!