[Dovecot] Adding ", S=size" to new message files when using "dirsize"

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 21 20:07:56 EET 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:52 -0700, Rich, Whidbey Telecom wrote:
> 
> > Dirsize was never meant to be used with maildir. Why do you want
> to  
> > use it instead of maildir++ quota?
> 
> We'd like to use maildir++ in the future, but haven't tested it yet  
> with our MTA (which uses "dirsize"-like summing).  We realize  
> "dirsize is a really bad idea with maildirs" so don't prefer it, but  
> it's been working OK in the meantime.  If it could just enable  
> tagging appended files too, it might at least be an option for
> maildir?

I just fear that if I do that, some people would actually use maildir
+dirsize combination without realizing how horribly slow it is..
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