Re: [Dovecot] Zlib plugin - when does it make sense?

Am 25.11.2013 14:12, schrieb Everton Foscarini:

I have a relatively big installation here in the university, 1 mail server for 10.000 daily active accounts.

I converted from maildir to mdbox + zlib in march, and these are my considerations:

1. CPU is not a problem, even delivering more than 400 messages per minute (blade HS21 with 2xQuad E5430 from 2008)
2. I used dsync to convert from maildir to mdbox, with dovecot 2.1 at the time.

The biggest win is the file number reduction, from 27 million to 2 million.

But this is due to the conversion to mdbox and not the compression, isn't it?

• René