On 14.11.2011, at 16.35, Alexander Chekalin wrote: > 1. mdbox uses 'a lot' files (m.1, m.2 ... etc), and the default size if 2Mb. > Looks like not even every message can fit into such storage container volume > (nowadays we used to see messages of 20Mb and even more).
The messages are never split into multiple files. So if you have a 20 MB message, it gets stored into its own m.* file. > Should I tune it (at least mdbox_rotate_size and mdbox_rotate_interval) or > its size is on purpose? As for now I store each day's messages in separate > IMAP folders (mailboxes), which gives me 2000-6000 messages and 2-5 Gb (on > disk) per folder. The main problem with larger mdbox files is that if you expunge messages, there's more data to write when packing the data into a new file. I don't really know the "best" value for mdbox_rotate_size setting. But even a 2 MB mdbox file can contain thousands of small mails, so it's not too bad..
