[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

[Stan Hoeppner]

Andrzej Adam Filip put forth on 1/15/2011 4:02 AM:
> Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> [...] The average size of an email worldwide today is less than 4KB,
>> less than one typical filesystem block. [...]
> 
> Do not confuse "unix culture" of mostly plain text only email messages
> with "MS Junk" culture of overblown formatting with background images
> company logos as a few image files in every (internal) email.

"average size of an email worldwide"

The bulk of all email is personal, not corporate:  think Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo,
the 50k ISPs worldwide, etc.  Average all of that together with the corporate
mail (small percentage), and you're well under 4KB per message, especially
considering the amount of SMS gatewaying going on with smart phones today.  Most
of those are one liners with the smtp header being 4 times the size of the body,
with total message size being under 1KB.

-- 
Stan