[Dovecot] imap limits please ?

Spyros Tsiolis stsiol at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Dec 6 20:15:58 EET 2010


Hello,

Finally managed to sync an outlook client to dovecot.
Looks like it's working.
Questions though ; :

What are the limits? Number of Folders ?
Number of mails per folder ?

E.g. for a client of mine, I know that she uses about
5Gb of data at the moment (and counting).
Now, this same outlook client consists of the following :

1. about thirty (30) folders ranging from 1000 messages per
folder to 100 messages per folder

2. A "Sent Items" folder with about 4,000 messages (and counting)

3. A "Deleted Items" folder with about 5,500 messages (and counting)

System, now, is a CentOS 5.5 32-bit on an hp/compaq dl360 (G3) with
RAID1 76,3Gb Disks UW320 and four (4Gb) of RAM

Output of "dovecot -n" :

------------------------------------------------------------
# 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log
ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_greeting: * Dovecot ready *
login_max_processes_count: 32
mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
mail_plugins: zlib
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  debug_passwords: yes
  passdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: static
    args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
------------------------------------------------------------

Any answer would be greatly appreciated since I am trying to 
know the systems' limits.

Thank you kindly all,

spyros


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