[Dovecot] Compressed maildir

[Curtis Maloney]

Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i think with you waste more space with not fully used clusters and
> stuff.
> e.g. i have:
> $ du -sh Maildir ; du -sh --apparent-size Maildir

I tried this... Solaris du doesn't appear to have --apparent-size..

I see your point, but my users have an unfortunate tendency to keep e-mails with 
attachments (no matter how big a stick I wield), so there would be a definite 
saving there.

Since several of my users have over 1GB of mail ('top' user is now around 
1.6GB), I think there is a potential to save considerable space.

Besides... when was the last time you saw an e-mail below 512bytes?  There is 
_some_ saving to be made, if not a lot.  But a little saving over a few million 
e-mails?  Well, it all ads up.

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Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net