On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 14:26 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in > Dovecot?
No. > We're finding major performance hits once a threshold of files/directory > is exceeded. This applies across all common filesystems with the > threshold differing depending on the FS. GFS2 pretty much _STOPS_ for 10 > minutes when users put 65k+ messages in one folder... mdbox would probably work nicely. :) > I'm currently running 1.1.20 but looking to update (RHEL5 cluster > installation) With v1.2+ you could also try maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes
