[Dovecot] Index files size calculation

Timo Sirainen
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:26:36 -0000

On 15.1.2011, at 21.08, Patrick Westenberg wrote:

> 2 or 3 weeks ago, one of you explained how to calculate the size of the
> index files for an user.

Someone did? .. It anyway depends on IMAP client and possibly also user. There
are no easy ways to calculate it exactly. I think it's usually around 10-20%
of mailbox size, but it really depends more on the number of messages than the
size of messages.