[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

[Curtis Maloney]

robforrest wrote:
> What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown
> the contents of their mailboxes.  However, when they try and access a given
> email, they get no response even if they wait upwards of 10 minutes.  I
> believe that the problem has arisen from their huge inboxes, several users
> have inboxes in excess of 4GB.

FC4 is quite old... can the kernel and filesystem you're using properly 
handle files over 4GB?

This is certainly one advantage dbox and maildir have -- not being limited 
to the FS file size limit per folder.

But what sort of user puts 4GB of mail into a _single_ folder??

-- 
Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net