Hello,
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:10:00 -0700 Tom Bombadil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >> of indexing during delivery are negligible for us in general and
> >> potentially negative in some scenarios (mass mail to many/all users).
> >
> > Is this negative hypothetical or have you actually se
>
>> of indexing during delivery are negligible for us in general and
>> potentially negative in some scenarios (mass mail to many/all users).
>
> Is this negative hypothetical or have you actually seen load spikes in
> situations like this?
I actually did see that.
In the case of exim, for ea
> We use exim all the way to local delivery. And it handles Maildir++
> quotas just fine.
Ah, right. I was misremembering. It's the DB-stored quotas in dovecot that I
was thinking of using some time back. Sorry for
my misstatement.
> of indexing during delivery are negligible for us in genera
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:31:01 -0700 (PDT) "WJCarpenter"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Also, are there any drawbacks of using exim to do the local delivery?
>
> I'm very interested in the answer to this question, too. So far I have
> found (through reading, not trying things yet) that Dovecot's q
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 11:44 -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote:
> > I just wrote this: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Indexing
> Also, are there any drawbacks of using exim to do the local delivery?
Like the wiki page says, there shouldn't be really any performance
problems with that. I can't say if there are
> Also, are there any drawbacks of using exim to do the local delivery?
I'm very interested in the answer to this question, too. So far I have found
(through reading, not trying things yet) that
Dovecot's quota handling is more flexible than Exim's (exim is pretty much
limited to FS quotas, I t
> Indexes aren't normally "rebuilt", they're "updated". And the update
> overhead is practically nothing with maildir.
>
> I just wrote this: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Indexing
Hi Timo...
So, if I understand this correctly, if I'm using maildir, I could use
exim to do the local delivery inste
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 21:55 -0700, WJCarpenter wrote:
> I realize it's hard to be precise about this, but does anyone have a
> feel or rule of thumb for a couple of aspects of indexing overhead?
>
> 1. Proportionally, how much space does it take for all 4 files? If I
> want to give my users a qu
WJCarpenter wrote:
Thanks, but I think you misunderstood my question. I'm trying to
figure out how much disk space I'll actually need for holding the
index files. In other words, I'm looking for a planning factor to
figure out how much disk to buy when I got to Fry's :-).
Using my own maildir
wjc> I realize it's hard to be precise about this, but does anyone
wjc> have a feel or rule of thumb for a couple of aspects of indexing
wjc> overhead?
ss> You can always put the indexes in non-quota space like var. That
ss> way the indexes don't get counted against the users files, and
ss> won't
WJCarpenter spake the following on 8/22/2007 9:55 PM:
> I realize it's hard to be precise about this, but does anyone have a
> feel or rule of thumb for a couple of aspects of indexing overhead?
>
> 1. Proportionally, how much space does it take for all 4 files? If I
> want to give my users a qu
I realize it's hard to be precise about this, but does anyone have a
feel or rule of thumb for a couple of aspects of indexing overhead?
1. Proportionally, how much space does it take for all 4 files? If I
want to give my users a quota of 100 MB for messages, how much real
space should I plan fo
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