[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

[Giles Coochey]

On 17/01/2011 14:18, Steve wrote:
>
>> On 17/01/2011 13:41, Steve wrote:
>>> You get 500Kb+ sized spam messages? That is not usual. I have not done
>> any computation on my part but I remember seen last year (or so) a study
>> showing that spam messages are usually below 64Kb.
>> That can depend on what you clasify as SPAM. Many, 'newsletters' which
>> you've been 'subscribed to' by negative option web-forms are considered
>> SPAM by some, and those may contain PDF attachments of 500kb+
>>
> Welll.... I wrote about "usual" and those newsletter that you tag as Spam but have subscribed to them are definitely not the norm.
>
I think that was Martin's point, while they are not the norm, they are off the scale enough to severely influence the 'average'. They account for 0.2% of the events in the same, yet are more than 10000% above what is considered the 'norm'.

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