[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

[Warren Baker]

On Monday, January 17, 2011, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Cor Bosman put forth on 1/16/2011 5:34 PM:
>> Btw, our average mailsize last we checked was 30KB. Thats a pretty good average as we're an ISP with a very wide user base.  I think 4KB average is not a normal mail load.
>
> As another OP pointed out, some ISPs apparently have to deliver a lot of spam to
> mailboxen to avoid FPs, bumping up that average mail size considerably.  Do you
> accept and deliver a lot of spam to user mailboxen?


At an ISP I worked at, we did a study (just over 2 years ago) on the
average size of spam mail that was been delivered to the users. It
worked out to an average size of between 8KB and 10KB. This was based
on data over a period of 12months with an average of a 180 million
mails per month been received. Legit mail was averaging at 32KB.

I doubt whether the sizes of spam has changed much.

.warren


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.warren