[Dovecot] how to calculate mail storage/traffic used

[Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator]

Am 08.11.13 09:07, schrieb Steffen Kaiser:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
> 
>> We have to setup a server which gets a copy of all messages send and
>> received by our mailserver as a 1:1 copy. Mails send to multiple
>> recipients should be calculated and saved per user. (great if you
>> usually have lost of mails send to groups of people.)
> 
>> So no dedublication should be used here. (e.g. save the message and
>> refer the different recipients to it.)
> 
>> How can I calculate the current traffic in the best way to extrapolate
>> the amount of space to be planed for the new server?
> 
> I would check your MTA logs, if you get the size of the message and the
> [number of] recipients.  Do you really want to store outgoing mails,
> too? In mailboxes accessable by IMAP or the like?

Hi,

no, we have to put all messages in ELM / singel file format on to a
networkshare to be collected and processed by a document management system.

We need in and out mails to be saved.

I know there are better/other solutions including good dedublication for
mail archiving, but thats how it works.

Cheers . Götz

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