On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 08:36 +0200, Marco Giunta wrote:
Hi to all, I'm a sys admin in a college, and we're using Dovecot as IMAP/POP3 server and delivery; we're also patch dovecot to add managesieve capability. I've a question:
I've read on dovecot's wiki, that is possible improve the performance on maildir files by adding ,S=<size>,W=<vsize> fields on filename.
Only in some specific situations. Do you use Maildir++ quota? S= is useful only with it. Do you use Dovecot's deliver? It adds S= automatically if you use quota plugin.
W= isn't added automatically by v1.0, but v1.1 adds it (actually I just noticed that the code was accidentally commented out, I enabled it again so the next release will have it).
But as long as you're using index files (and you should be), W= doesn't really provide any performance benefits.