[Dovecot] Index files size calculation

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jan 15 21:26:36 EET 2011


On 15.1.2011, at 21.08, Patrick Westenberg wrote:

> 2 or 3 weeks ago, one of you explained how to calculate the size of the
> index files for an user.

Someone did? .. It anyway depends on IMAP client and possibly also user. There are no easy ways to calculate it exactly. I think it's usually around 10-20% of mailbox size, but it really depends more on the number of messages than the size of messages.



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