[Dovecot] Dovecot Usage Poll
Hi all,
I'm trying to get a feel for how many sites are using Dovecot and the size of the installation. Jonathan's query about big sites spurred my curiousity.
I'd like to take an informal poll and will post results to the list.
I'm interested in hearing from those of you who are using dovecot
in a real-life/production type environment (not just testing).
Please email me directly [jackie.hunt@colostate.edu] and send the
following info:
(1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc. (2) Number of users supported with Dovecot (3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production" (4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
Thanks much,
Jackie
Jackie Hunt
ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789
Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958
Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt@colostate.edu
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:50:42AM -0600, Jackie Hunt wrote:
(1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc. Educational
(2) Number of users supported with Dovecot ~30 000
(3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production" About 5 months. Dovecot highly decreased disk I/O.
(4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA No. Hope to test it in near future.
Regards, Vaidas Pilkauskas
* On 21/09/06 22:17 +0300, Vaidas Pilkauskas wrote: | Hi, | | On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:50:42AM -0600, Jackie Hunt wrote: | > (1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc. | Educational | | > (2) Number of users supported with Dovecot | ~30 000 | | > (3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production" | About 5 months. Dovecot highly decreased disk I/O. | | > (4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA | No. Hope to test it in near future. You were supposed to send these to a different address that was given ;) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ To be is to do. -- I. Kant To do is to be. -- A. Sartre Yabba-Dabba-Doo! -- F. Flintstone
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El Thursday, 21 de Septiembre de 2006 19:50, Jackie Hunt escribió:
Hi all,
(1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc. Educational
(2) Number of users supported with Dovecot ~8000
(3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production" 6 months. We also had an I/O problem here with UW :)
(4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA We're testing it. Planned with the 1.0 transition.
Aaaaaaaaaagur.
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again. - Bruce Schneier
Jackie Hunt wrote:
Hi all, (1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc.
commercial
(2) Number of users supported with Dovecot
approx. 30.
(3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production"
Ummm... when was 0.99.12 released? A little while before that.
(4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
I hope to when I get time to make the transition to 1.0...
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:50 -0600, Jackie Hunt wrote:
(1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc.
etc. Uh, I guess, private would cut it.
(2) Number of users supported with Dovecot
4, three heavy users, one very light, total about 2.5G mail.
(3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production"
~2 years
(4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
No, using maildrop.
You forgot | (5) Why are you using dovecot?
extensibility (dspam plugin! :) ), ease of setup
Have fun, johannes
Jackie Hunt wrote:
(1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc.
Commercial. We're a small ISP, mainly for businnesses.
(2) Number of users supported with Dovecot
Three or four at the moment, about 35000 as soon as my tests turn out positive :)
(3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production"
A couple of weeks.
(4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
No. I run virtual users with one common maildrop configuration to do filtering per mailbox.
Robin
Hi all,
Thanks for the responses to my request for information on your usage of Dovecot. I received 31 mail messages, and here's how the data stacks up:
Types of Sites using Dovecot
Commercial: 16 Educational: 9 Private: 4 NonProfit: 1 Government: 1
Numbers of users supported with Dovecot ranged from 4 to 150,000. Here's a profile of how many sites support the given ranges of users:
1-10 Users: 7 11-99 Users: 4 100-1000 Users: 7 1000-10,000 Users: 7
10,000 Users: 6
The longest reported usage of Dovecot in production was 2.5 years. Here's the profile of the number of sites running Dovecot for various ranges of time:
1 month or less: 5
1 month to 6 months: 9 6 mos to 1 year: 8 1 year: 9
Only one site is currently using Dovecot's LDA, but 10 sites expressed interest in running it in the future.
Again, thanks much for the info!
Jackie
Jackie Hunt
ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789
Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958
Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt@colostate.edu
participants (7)
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Curtis Maloney
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Jackie Hunt
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Johannes Berg
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Joseba Torre
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Odhiambo WASHINGTON
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Robin Elfrink
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Vaidas Pilkauskas