[Dovecot] mdbox - healthy rotation size vs default

Jan-Frode Myklebust janfrode at tanso.net
Sun Aug 25 16:37:48 EEST 2013


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:47:56AM +0200, Michael Grimm wrote:
> 
> I am running "mdbox_rotate_size = 100m" for approx. a year now on
> a small server (a handful of users, only). All mailboxes are around
> 1G each with a lot of attachments. I never had an issue so far.

How much space are your mdboxes using, compared to to quota usage?
I.e. how much space is wasted on deleted messages?

(not sure this will be easy to measure, because of compression..)


  -jf


More information about the dovecot mailing list