On 2017-04-14 16:31, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 14/04/17 08:41 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Funny. I remember the complains with Exchange having a 2 GiB limit per mailbox, and here we go with a 50 MB default limit.
It's probably just an old default Postfix setting. My guess is it's not used much anymore - people set it to 0, and then leave the mailbox/-dir to be governed by quotas in dovecot.
And it has to load the entire mbox in RAM, to just append a new mail at the end?
I wouldn't think so, but we use maildirs.
And that's why I hate the ext[234] family of file systems.
Not sure I get the connection with Carlo's mailbox sizes?
No, the connection is with maildir. The only filesystem I know that is really happy in that usage is reiserfs. There are other mailbox formats, though, that stress less the filesystem, hybrids between maildir and mbox: storing several mails on the same file, but up to a file size limit, perhaps 1 MB, when it switches to a new file. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)