> > 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).
I use simon matter's RPM and I think it has an option (via rpm build switch) to hash user mailboxes so that clients can poll the mailboxes faster. Would this help? > 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. Hmm, the index files that are in each folder right? Not the db files like: mboxlist.db = skiplist subs.db = flat seen.db = skiplist duplicate.db = db3-nosync tls.db = db3-nosync (that is how my dbs are set up right now.) Thanks for the help, -j