[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

[Stan Hoeppner]

Warren Baker put forth on 1/18/2011 2:53 AM:
> On Monday, January 17, 2011, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> Cor Bosman put forth on 1/16/2011 5:34 PM:
>>> Btw, our average mailsize last we checked was 30KB. Thats a pretty good average as we're an ISP with a very wide user base.  I think 4KB average is not a normal mail load.
>>
>> As another OP pointed out, some ISPs apparently have to deliver a lot of spam to
>> mailboxen to avoid FPs, bumping up that average mail size considerably.  Do you
>> accept and deliver a lot of spam to user mailboxen?
> 
> 
> At an ISP I worked at, we did a study (just over 2 years ago) on the
> average size of spam mail that was been delivered to the users. It
> worked out to an average size of between 8KB and 10KB. This was based
> on data over a period of 12months with an average of a 180 million
> mails per month been received. Legit mail was averaging at 32KB.
> 
> I doubt whether the sizes of spam has changed much.

What was the ratio of spam to ham you were delivering to user mailboxes?

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Stan