[Dovecot] how to calculate mail storage/traffic used

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:

> We have to setup a server which gets a copy of all messages send and
> received by our mailserver as a 1:1 copy. Mails send to multiple
> recipients should be calculated and saved per user. (great if you
> usually have lost of mails send to groups of people.)
>
> So no dedublication should be used here. (e.g. save the message and
> refer the different recipients to it.)
>
> How can I calculate the current traffic in the best way to extrapolate
> the amount of space to be planed for the new server?

I would check your MTA logs, if you get the size of the message and the 
[number of] recipients.  Do you really want to store outgoing mails, too? 
In mailboxes accessable by IMAP or the like?

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Steffen Kaiser
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