[Dovecot] Performance with 200k messages in Maildir

Vegard Svanberg vegard at svanberg.no
Mon Jul 18 22:51:19 EEST 2011


* Ricardo Branco <ricardo at wenn.com> [2011-07-18 18:10]:

> To get benefits of Dovecot indexing you would need to interface Mutt
> to IMAP or else you will scan the Maildir directory each time Mutt
> is started.

Yes, that's more or less what I wrote / meant to write :)

> You need to know more info than just 200,000 messages.
> 
> How many mailboxes, users, messages per day etc

One mailbox, one user. Messages per day varies from 200 to 1500.

(I try to limit the mailbox to 200000.)

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Vegard Svanberg <vegard at svanberg.no> [*Takapa at IRC (EFnet)]



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