[Dovecot] Max IMAP fodlers

[Mario Antonio]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:24 -0800, Jeffrey Nikoletich wrote:
>   
>> Is there a way to limit the amount of maildir folders a user can have? 
>>     
>
> No.
>
>   
>> Also is there is hard limit on the amount of folders dovecot can
>> handle? I have a user who has over 3000 folder (including subfolders)
>> that is having issues with delays in loading, moving, and deleting
>> messages.
>>     
>
> I guess you're using Maildir++, so all of the folders are in the one
> Maildir root directory? That's probably the main reason why it's slow.
> With v1.1+ you could switch to fs layout, so that the subfolders would
> no longer be in the root directory.
>
>   
Then, from a performance perspective,  should fs layout be the 
recommended configuration for Maildir++ ?


M.A.