Hello, I recently installed dovecot on a server running Debian. I only have 10 users, but we probably have 6Gig of email between us. Things were working flawlessly for a couple of weeks, and I'm still getting email, but the last few days we are getting fewer emails that we typically do. So although things seem to be working well, everyone is suspicious something is wrong due to the lack of email volume. Is there a size limit that dovecot can manage? Are there any admin tools to get status messages for dovecot? Are there any reporting tools to show how many messages are processed/managed by dovecot? Thanks!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051205/f67d4917/attachment-0001.html>
wolff wrote:> Is there a size limit that dovecot can manage?Maildir or mbox? Single folder or deep tree? It makes a big difference. We are using maildir and out of the 350 or so users we are using ~45GB total. dovecot can handle that and more. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748
wolff wrote:> Hello, > > I recently installed dovecot on a server running Debian. > > I only have 10 users, but we probably have 6Gig of email between us.We have only about 20 users, and store around 23 to 25G of mail. And that's mostly because I was tyrannical about people keeping their mailboxes lean until we got a new HDD :)> Things were working flawlessly for a couple of weeks, and I'm still getting > email, but the last few days we are getting fewer emails that we typically > do. > So although things seem to be working well, everyone is suspicious something > is wrong due to the lack of email volume. > > Is there a size limit that dovecot can manage?That's mostly dependent on your file system, since you're running Maildir. The limits will be on "messages per folder" and "single file size", both of which you are unlikely to have reached.> Are there any admin tools to get status messages for dovecot?No, but that's not a bad idea. What sort of features would you be looking for?> Are there any reporting tools to show how many messages are > processed/managed by dovecot?Well, there are a few options and patches that make it easier to see how many messages people are reading with Dovecot... but since it's the _ingress_ of mail you're suspecting, I'd be looking at your MTA logs ( sendmail/postfix/qmail/exim/whatever ) -- if the MTA isn't seeing the mail, there's no way Dovecot can, either. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney at cardgate.net
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:47 -0600, wolff wrote:> Hello, > > I recently installed dovecot on a server running Debian. > > I only have 10 users, but we probably have 6Gig of email between us. > > Things were working flawlessly for a couple of weeks, and I'm still > getting email, but the last few days we are getting fewer emails that > we typically do. > So although things seem to be working well, everyone is suspicious > something is wrong due to the lack of email volume. > > Is there a size limit that dovecot can manage? > Are there any admin tools to get status messages for dovecot? > Are there any reporting tools to show how many messages are > processed/managed by dovecot? > > Thanks!!an interesting option might be http://www.openmailadmin.org, though I have never used it personally. regards Udo -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051206/92f75b72/attachment.bin>