[Dovecot] Limiting the size of index files

[Timo Sirainen]

On 14.11.2007, at 11.33, Edgar Fuß wrote:

> Is there a way to limit the amount of disc space dovecot will use  
> for its index cache? Other than putting that on a separate  
> partition, I mean.
>
> We host our mail data on the file server, however, the index files  
> are located on local discs on each of the mail servers and seem to  
> grow without bounds. We're above 250M now and soon /var will run  
> out of space.

You could always just delete some of them manually. I guess it would  
be possible to make it drop data more aggressively. I'll add in my TODO.

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