Eric Rostetter put forth on 12/12/2010 9:08 PM:
Quoting Stan Hoeppner stan@hardwarefreak.com:
Also, due to the potential size of the index files (mine alone are 276 MB on an 877 MB mbox), you'll need to do some additional research to see if this is a possibility for you.
That's rather high based on my users... My largest user has 110M of indexes. The next highest users are 54M, 52M, 43M, 38M, 32M, 30M, 27M, 23M, 22M, and then tons of users in the teens... So your situation doesn't seem to be the norm...
Oh, I'm positive of that Eirc. :)
I guess it depends on your site (users, quotas, number of folders per user, etc).
About 135 MB of that 276 MB mentioned above is search indexes.
This mailbox has a little over 62,000 emails, stored in mbox format. Most of the 62K reside in less than 10 mbox files (IMAP folders). It's definitely out of the norm. :)
-- Stan