Completly PEBKAC problem. I was not cleaning Maildir directory after several conversions.
2012/9/12 Igor Zinovik <zinovik.i...@gmail.com>: > Hello, list. > > I'm asking question not directly connected with dovecot. > > I'm planning a migration from cyrus-imapd to dovecot and i'm using > cyrus2dovecot script (by Freie Universität Berlin) to convert mailboxes > of users, but i'm wondering why size of mailbox in Maildir++ is so > much bigger than mailbox in cyrus format after conversion: > linux-a9qw:~/ # du -sh /mnt/imap/z/user/zinovik > /srv/vmail/petrsu.ru/z/zinovik/Maildir > 238M /mnt/imap/z/user/zinovik > 1.2G /srv/vmail/mydom.ru/z/zinovik/Maildir > > I was planning to implement quota for mailboxes about 1 gigabyte, > but after conversion I would not be able to receive messages to my own > box, because i'm overquota. > > I think the only way would be to set quota up to 15 GB since some of users > have mailbox with 12GB after conversion, but I have no such disk capacity > to allow more than 1500 users have 15GB quota. > > Would it be practical solution to compress all files after conversion and > enable > zlib support in dovecot?
