Wow, incredible response time :) I have 1 more question which I forgot to put in the initial post.
Considering my use case (small number of accounts but alot of emails per account, and I should add that they are mostly small emails, most under 5k, alot under 30k) what mdbox setting would you recommend i start testing with (mdbox_rotate_size and mdbox_rotate_interval). -JD On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28.1.2012, at 17.59, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > > > I am planning on running on test between maildir and mdbox to see which > is > > a better fit for my use case. And I'm just looking for general > > advice/recommendation. I will post any results I obtain here. > > Maildir is good for reliability, since it's just about impossible to > corrupt, and even in case of filesystem corruption it's easier to recover > than other formats. mdbox is good if you want the best performance. > > > Important question: I have multiple users hitting the same email account > at > > the same time. Can be a problem with mdbox? > > No problem. > > > - Serving only a hand full of email accounts but some of the accounst > have > > over 3 millions emails in them (with individual mail folders having 100k+ > > emails) > > Maildir gets slow with that many mails in one folder. > > > - fts-lucene or fts-solr? > > > fts-lucene uses the latest CLucene version, which is a little old. With > fts-solr you can use the latest Solr/Lucene. So as long as you don't mind > setting up a Solr instance it should be better. The good thing about > fts-lucene is that you can simply enable it and it works without any > external servers.
