[Dovecot] Index files size calculation

[Willie Gillespie]

On 01/16/2011 04:28 PM, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
> Timo Sirainen schrieb:
>
>> 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.
>
> Okay, so what will happen if the storage for index files is full?

 From the wiki [1]:
"If index files are missing, Dovecot creates them automatically when the 
mailbox is opened. If at any point creating a file or growing a file 
gives "not enough disk space" error, the indexes are transparently moved 
to memory for the rest of the session."

[1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles