[Dovecot] Quotas - per folder message limits?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 6 17:03:29 EEST 2010


On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 14:26 +0100, Alan Brown wrote:
> Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in 
> Dovecot?

No.

> We're finding major performance hits once a threshold of files/directory 
> is exceeded. This applies across all common filesystems with the 
> threshold differing depending on the FS. GFS2 pretty much _STOPS_ for 10 
> minutes when users put 65k+ messages in one folder...

mdbox would probably work nicely. :)

> I'm currently running 1.1.20 but looking to update (RHEL5 cluster 
> installation)

With v1.2+ you could also try maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes




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