On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Joe Hrbek wrote: > Hi, quick question. Assuming I have the space (I have 4, 146gb scsi > ultra320 drives in a raid setup with dual xeon processors and 2 gb of ram), > what is the maximum "recommended" mailbox quota? I've googled around for an > hour and I haven't been able to find anything worthwile. I also looked at > the imapv4 rfc and didn't see anything like, "don't have a quota higher > than...", etc. My boss asked me if I could allow quotas up to 3 or 4 gb for > certain users. I laughed, he didn't. :)
That's mostly a system policy decision, though, clients and servers will generally perform worse with large numbers of messages in a given folder (not necessaraly the same thing as as having several large messages in a folder). Note that the quota isn't the full story about how much space a mailbox uses, since the index and especially the cache files can take a nontrivial amount of space as well. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper