[Dovecot] mdbox - healthy rotation size vs default
Charles Marcus
CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon Aug 26 22:31:20 EEST 2013
On 2013-08-26 3:23 PM, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
> On 2013-08-26 2:58 PM, Michael Grimm <trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> As a very rough estimate I do estimate a 5% waste of space regarding
>> deleted messages. But, my handful users are very disciplined in
>> purging their deleted messages on a regular basis (I told them to
>> do), and thus my regular "doveadm purge -A" runs will reduce that
>> amount of wasted disk space to a minimum.
>>
>> Not very helpful, I know,
>
> Are you sure about that? There was a thread a while back (I recently
> posted a response to it) about this, and it sounded like the mdbox
> files would *never* be 'compacted' (reduced in size from deleted
> messages)... my reply was on 8/23, thread titled "Dovecot never
> release preallocated space in mdbox'...
Ooops, sorry, it was about *automatically* compacting them... I think...
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