on 10/15/2007 8:52 AM Ilo Lorusso spake the following:
Hi,
ive walked into a enviroment where the previous admin has being using pop and making the email clients leaving a copy of the mail on the workstation..
Now overtime these mailboxes (mbox format) have grown between 1,5 to 1,8 Gigs large
I want to convert all these mailbox to IMAP (only 15) and want to know whats the largested suggest folder size per user dovecot IMAP runs smoothly with good responce times..
I know the users also have large OUT LOOK pst files 4.5GIGs and wondering if I could also intergrate that into IMAP?
Please any feedback would be great on this topic..??
I have some users that have let their inboxes get to a gig with no noticeable speed problems except when you delete stuff from the middle with clients like thunderbird that want to purge on every delete. If you purge as a seperate step, it isn't as noticeable.
I have some little used folders of things like logwatch e-mails that are several gigs large, and I can read and search them fairly quickly.
The indexes in dovecot help a lot. Wuimap would slow to a crawl on large boxes.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!