[TriLUG] mbox limit with postfix?

Benjamin Reed ranger at befunk.com
Mon Jan 13 21:12:32 EST 2003


On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:11 PM, Jason Tower wrote:

> well i'll be a monkey's uncle.  the following parameter is in
> /etc/postfix/main.cf.default (not main.cf, where i was looking):
>
> mailbox_size_limit = 51200000
>
> i'll jack it up to 100MB if i run into this again (i pared all of the 
> mbox's
> down to under 10MB already, so hopefully it will be awhile).  thanks 
> ben -

Just remember that performance decreases significantly as the mailbox 
gets bigger, so make sure your drives can keep up.  mbox-style IMAP has 
to copy the mailbox file to serve it.




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