[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

[Charles Marcus]

On 2011-01-17 2:47 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:07 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2011-01-15 9:30 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
>>> Then, enforce a smallish per user quota (how much would depend on your
>>> particular environment, but I'm thinking something like 250 or maybe
>>> 500MB, since our users do get a lot of large attachments in the course
>>> of doing business) on their INBOX - & Sent, Drafts and Templates folders
>>> too, but that's a question on my list of 'how to do' - how to easily
>>> place these 'special' folders on the 'fast' namespace, and all user
>>> created folders in the 'slow' namespace. It would be really nice if
>>> there were some kind of native way that dovecot could 'assign' the
>>> 'special' folders to the same namespace as the INBOX, and all other user
>>> created folders to another...
>>
>> Timo - any chance you could comment on the best way to accomplish this -
>> or if it is even possible right now? I'm hoping to start testing this in
>> the next few weeks...
> 
> Well, you can have per-namespace quotas. But that of course means that
> the other namespace must have a prefix, so users would have to have
> something like:
> 
>  - INBOX
>  - Drafts
>  - Sent
>  - bignamespace
>      - work
>      - etc.
> 
> Which wouldn't be very pretty. So if you then wanted to arbitrarily move
> mailboxes across different quota roots .. I'm not really even sure what
> would be a good way to configure that.
> 
> For INBOX only a separate namespace should be possible to implement
> without trouble though.

Ok, thanks... hmmm... have to do some more thinking on this one...

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Best regards,

Charles