[Dovecot] Suggested IMAP Directory Size..

[Scott Silva]

on 10/15/2007 8:52 AM Ilo Lorusso spake the following:
> Hi,
> 
> ive walked into a enviroment where the previous admin has being using pop
> and making the email clients leaving a copy of the mail on the workstation..
> 
> Now overtime these mailboxes (mbox format) have grown  between  1,5 to 1,8
> Gigs large
> 
> I want to convert all these mailbox to IMAP  (only 15) and want to know
> whats the largested suggest folder size per user dovecot IMAP runs
> smoothly with good responce times..
> 
> I know the users also have large OUT LOOK pst files 4.5GIGs and wondering if
> I could also intergrate that into IMAP?
> 
> 
> Please any feedback would be great on this topic..??
> 
I have some users that have let their inboxes get to a gig with no noticeable 
speed problems except when you delete stuff from the middle with clients like 
thunderbird that want to purge on every delete. If you purge as a seperate 
step, it isn't as noticeable.

I have some little used folders of things like logwatch e-mails that are 
several gigs large, and I can read and search them fairly quickly.

The indexes in dovecot help a lot. Wuimap would slow to a crawl on large boxes.

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