[Dovecot] Maildir or Mdbox and expunge messages.

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.3.2013, at 11.55, Evgeny Basov <ya.mwork at yandex.ru> wrote:

> I tested dovecot's work with expunge messages on Mdbox over strace (see
> at tail of message). As I can see  dovecot process opens old storage m.*
> file, reads it content, opens new temporary file, writes in this one
> content and rename this new one to m.(*+1).

You're talking about doveadm purge, right? Not expunge.

> How fast this algorithm works on system with about 10000 users and 5Tb
> data? I will use mdbox_rotate_interval for delayed expunge but I think
> that simple delete file in Maildir must be faster than expunge from Mdbox.

Yes, Maildir/sdbox is faster when freeing up disk space for mails. Read and save operations should be faster in mdbox though. And if the purge is run at a time when there is less disk IO, it shouldn't be that bad.