[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

[Scott Silva]

on 5-28-2009 4:46 PM Curtis Maloney spake the following:
> robforrest wrote:
>> What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are
>> shown
>> the contents of their mailboxes.  However, when they try and access a
>> given
>> email, they get no response even if they wait upwards of 10 minutes.  I
>> believe that the problem has arisen from their huge inboxes, several
>> users
>> have inboxes in excess of 4GB.
> 
> FC4 is quite old... can the kernel and filesystem you're using properly
> handle files over 4GB?
> 
> This is certainly one advantage dbox and maildir have -- not being
> limited to the FS file size limit per folder.
> 
> But what sort of user puts 4GB of mail into a _single_ folder??
> 
(l)users!

;-P



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