[Dovecot] imap limits please ?

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>:
> Hello,
> 
> Finally managed to sync an outlook client to dovecot.
> Looks like it's working.
> Questions though ; :
> 
> What are the limits? Number of Folders ?
> Number of mails per folder ?

Are there any? Maybe a 32bit limit for number of mails per folder and
such? But then, can your filesystem handle these numbers?

> E.g. for a client of mine, I know that she uses about
> 5Gb of data at the moment (and counting).

That's not much.

> Now, this same outlook client consists of the following :
> 
> 1. about thirty (30) folders ranging from 1000 messages per
> folder to 100 messages per folder

No problem
 
> 2. A "Sent Items" folder with about 4,000 messages (and counting)

No problem
 
> 3. A "Deleted Items" folder with about 5,500 messages (and counting)

No problem. Although she should clean up some day.

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