[Dovecot] Maildir and counting inodes

[Andy Cravens]

I've been testing with alpha 3 and I am about ready to go production.  I 
am switching from mbox to maildir and I'd like to know if there is a 
formula or rule of thumb for determining if your file system will have 
enough inodes to handle all the mail message files.

I could write a script to look at each user's mbox files, count the 
number messages and calculate the average number of emails per user, 
then add a fudge factor for expected growth.  However, I doubt anybody 
actually goes to this much trouble to plan ahead.  Or do they?

I'm running Solaris 9 and when I created the file system I just used the 
defaults.  If I need to change anything, I'd rather do it before going 
production.  Thanks for any info you can provide on this subject.