[Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1
Geert Hendrickx
ghen at telenet.be
Tue Apr 29 13:20:05 EEST 2008
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:49:43AM +0200, Cor Bosman wrote:
> > How large are the (individual) mailboxes you're hosting there?
>
> Most of them are max 500MB, but average use is much less. It's a little
> difficult to calculate because almost all POP users empty their mailbox.
> We did some reports a few months ago where it showed that average mailbox
> size for POP users is less than 5MB, while average mailbox usage for IMAP
> was over 50MB.
Ok, so you're probably not facing any filesystem bottlenecks w.r.t. number
of files in a Maildir folder?
Geert
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