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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote:
> > My largest is about 5+ GB gzipped (I thought it was 6gb until I just  
> > checked),
> > but I am on a 64 bit server and don't have a 2 gb filesize limit. I  
> > have
> > several users with 2 to 3 GB inboxes on IMAP, and don't get any  
> > complaints. I
> 
> Are you saying that you can gzip a mailbox, and Dovecot will then  
> somehow uncompress that and send the data back out to the Desktop  
> Client as a normal looking IMAP box?
> 
> I have never heard of this tactic, and I am not finding any references  
> to it on google, though I am probably just not understanding it and  
> looking at the wrong search terms.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib

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