[Dovecot] Glued-together private namespaces

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Nov 16 20:34:14 EET 2011


On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 16:04 -0800, Mark Moseley wrote:
> > The gotcha is that you have two completely independent quotas with
> > independent usage/limits for the INBOX and Archive namespaces. If that
> > is what you want, it should all be fine.
> 
> Nope, that's totally fine. The idea is to put Archive on cheaper
> (slower) storage and then grant more generous quotas there to make it
> worth their while to use, without slowing down their Inbox. Another
> application would be to put their Spam in another namespace (for
> people who choose to have it put in a separate folder) with a lower
> quota, again to offload it onto cheaper storage, since hardly anyone
> actually looks at it.

Should be fine then.

> Or is this something that I could be doing more transparently in 2.1 with imapc?

I don't really see how that could help.





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