[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 02:07 -0700, robforrest wrote:
> What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown
> the contents of their mailboxes.  However, when they try and access a given
> email, they get no response even if they wait upwards of 10 minutes.  I
> believe that the problem has arisen from their huge inboxes, several users
> have inboxes in excess of 4GB.

mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes would probably make these mailboxes usable
without having to split anything or convert to Maildir. That requires
Dovecot v1.0+ of course.

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