[Dovecot] Suggested IMAP Directory Size..

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:52 +0200, Ilo Lorusso wrote:
> 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..

If old messages are deleted, maildir would work a lot faster than mbox.
If not, Dovecot shouldn't have problems even with huge mbox files as
long as you set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes. >4GB files should work, but
they haven't been tested much.

> I know the users also have large OUT LOOK pst files 4.5GIGs and wondering if
> I could also intergrate that into IMAP?

Sure, if you can figure out how to convert them.

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