[TriLUG] mbox limit with postfix?
Heath Holcomb
bluetea at nc.rr.com
Tue Jan 14 19:20:25 EST 2003
I've got a Pentium Pro 200 with SCSI disks running Courier IMAP and it
works like a champ. ;-)
Courier is actually very easy to set up (even with SSL), but the
migration to maildir would be a pain if you've got existing mbox users.
It does feel fast, even on folders with thousands of messages.
Heath
Jason Tower wrote:
> yeah it's a tad sluggish but not that bad considering the server (pentium pro
> 200, but at least it has scsi disks). i gave the user a little lecture about
> organizing emails into seperate smaller folders based on content, date, or
> whatever. but he likes to keep it in one huge flat file, go figure. i'm
> assuming a maildir system would be faster but decided it wasn't worth the
> effort. one of these days i'll mess around with and get courier imap
> working.
>
> jason
>
> On Monday 13 January 2003 21:12, Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
>>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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