dovecot - Sep 2006 - Dovecot Usage Poll

Hi all,

I'm trying to get a feel for how many sites are using Dovecot
and the size of the installation.  Jonathan's query about big
sites spurred my curiousity.

I'd like to take an informal poll and will post results to the list.  
I'm interested in hearing from those of you who are using dovecot
in a real-life/production type environment (not just testing).
Please email me directly [jackie.hunt at colostate.edu] and send the
following info:

(1)  Type of organization:  commercial/government/educational/etc.
(2)  Number of users supported with Dovecot
(3)  Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production"
(4)  Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA

Thanks much,

Jackie
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Jackie Hunt                                                       
ACNS                                    Voice:  (970) 663-3789     
Colorado State University               FAX:    (970) 491-1958
Fort Collins, CO  80523                 Email:  jackie.hunt at colostate.edu

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:50:42AM -0600, Jackie Hunt
wrote:
> (1)  Type of organization:  commercial/government/educational/etc.
Educational
> (2)  Number of users supported with Dovecot
~30 000
> (3)  Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in
"production"
About 5 months. Dovecot highly decreased disk I/O. 
> (4)  Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
No. Hope to test it in near future.

Regards,
Vaidas Pilkauskas

Aupa!

El Thursday, 21 de Septiembre de 2006 19:50, Jackie Hunt
escribi?:
> Hi all,
>
> (1)  Type of organization:  commercial/government/educational/etc.
Educational
> (2)  Number of users supported with Dovecot
~8000
> (3)  Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in
"production"
6 months. We also had an I/O problem here with UW :)
> (4)  Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
We're testing it. Planned with the 1.0 transition.

Aaaaaaaaaagur.
-- 
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. 
The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take 
this into account, the sooner people will start making money again. 
        - Bruce Schneier

Jackie Hunt wrote:
> Hi all,
> (1)  Type of organization:  commercial/government/educational/etc.
commercial
> (2)  Number of users supported with Dovecot
approx. 30.
> (3)  Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in
"production"
Ummm... when was 0.99.12 released?  A little while before that.
> (4)  Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
I hope to when I get time to make the transition to 1.0...


--
Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:50 -0600, Jackie Hunt wrote:
> (1)  Type of organization:  commercial/government/educational/etc.
etc. Uh, I guess, private would cut it.
> (2)  Number of users supported with Dovecot
4, three heavy users, one very light, total about 2.5G mail.
> (3)  Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in
"production"
~2 years
> (4)  Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
No, using maildrop.

You forgot
| (5) Why are you using dovecot?

extensibility (dspam plugin! :) ), ease of setup

Have fun,
johannes

Jackie Hunt wrote:
> (1)  Type of organization:  commercial/government/educational/etc.
Commercial. We're a small ISP, mainly for businnesses.
> (2)  Number of users supported with Dovecot
Three or four at the moment, about 35000 as soon as my tests turn out
positive :)
> (3)  Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in
"production"
A couple of weeks.
> (4)  Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA
No. I run virtual users with one common maildrop configuration to do
filtering per mailbox.



Robin

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses to my request for information on your
usage of Dovecot.  I received 31 mail messages, and here's
how the data stacks up:

Types of Sites using Dovecot

   Commercial: 16
   Educational: 9
   Private:     4
   NonProfit:   1
   Government:  1
 
Numbers of users supported with Dovecot ranged 
from 4 to 150,000.  Here's a profile of how many
sites support the given ranges of users:

   1-10 Users:        7
   11-99 Users:       4
   100-1000 Users:    7
   1000-10,000 Users: 7
   > 10,000 Users:    6

The longest reported usage of Dovecot in production 
was 2.5 years.  Here's the profile of the number 
of sites running Dovecot for various ranges of time:

   1 month or less:       5
   > 1 month to 6 months: 9
   > 6 mos to 1 year:     8
   > 1 year:              9
 
Only one site is currently using Dovecot's LDA, but 10
sites expressed interest in running it in the future.

Again, thanks much for the info!

Jackie
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Jackie Hunt                                                       
ACNS                                    Voice:  (970) 663-3789     
Colorado State University               FAX:    (970) 491-1958
Fort Collins, CO  80523                 Email:  jackie.hunt at colostate.edu