[Dovecot] how add size (, S=size) and virtual size (, W=vsize) fields to a maildir filename ?

Marco Giunta giunta at sissa.it
Tue May 13 11:20:00 EEST 2008


Thank you Timo, I'll use quota plugin on delivery.


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 08:36 +0200, Marco Giunta wrote:
>   
>> Hi to all,
>> I'm a sys admin in a college, and we're using Dovecot as IMAP/POP3
>> server and delivery; we're also patch dovecot to add managesieve
>> capability. I've a question:
>>
>> I've read on dovecot's wiki, that is possible improve the performance on
>> maildir files by adding ,S=<size>,W=<vsize> fields on filename.
>>     
>
> Only in some specific situations. Do you use Maildir++ quota? S= is
> useful only with it. Do you use Dovecot's deliver? It adds S=
> automatically if you use quota plugin.
>
> W= isn't added automatically by v1.0, but v1.1 adds it (actually I just
> noticed that the code was accidentally commented out, I enabled it again
> so the next release will have it).
>
> But as long as you're using index files (and you should be), W= doesn't
> really provide any performance benefits.
>   

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