[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

[Philipp Haselwarter]

"SH" == Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> writes:

SH> 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.

SH> "average size of an email worldwide"

SH> The bulk of all email is personal, not corporate: [...]

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| More than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted, according
| to a Microsoft security report.[39]
| 
| MAAWG estimates that 85% of incoming mail is "abusive email", as of the
| second half of 2007. The sample size for the MAAWG's study was over 100
| million mailboxes.[40][41][42]
| 
| Spamhaus estimates that 90% of incoming e-mail traffic is spam in North
| America, Europe or Australasia.[43] By June 2008 96.5% of e-mail
| received by businesses was spam.[18][unreliable source?]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam#As_a_percentage_of_the_total_volume_of_e-mail

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SH> under 4KB per message, especially considering the amount of SMS
SH> gatewaying going on with smart phones today.  Most of those are one
SH> liners with the smtp header being 4 times the size of the body, with
SH> total message size being under 1KB.

SH> -- Stan

I just have a tiny set of 4k spam mails, but they have an avg size of
39KB, ie well above 4KB.


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Philipp Haselwarter