[Dovecot] "failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Not enough disk space." with large mail

[Timo Sirainen]

On 11.6.2010, at 4.23, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Jakob Curdes put forth on 6/10/2010 10:54 AM:
> 
>> Same here, we run a  mailbox_size_limit of 700MB and have several users
>> regularly hitting the limit.
>> Can't really slap them as they would reply " on google I have 7 GB mail
>> space".
> 
> I wonder how often Google does full disaster recovery off site
> backup/mirroring of all those millions of _free_ 7GB mailboxen.  AFAIK, Google
> makes no guarantees WRT mailbox contents.  They may have full multi site
> redundancy, but I've yet to read a whitepaper describing it.

GMail (probably) uses Bigtable, which does have a whitepaper: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en//papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf