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Hello All, If I change the mdbox_rotate_size to 100 MB & mdbox_rotate_interval to say 3 days after a year of usage what would be the impact on existing mails and new mails? Thanks/DP

Hello. In order to speed up backups of very very old messages I would like to set two different limits for mdbox_rotate_size. Like, 50M for primary storage and 100M or larger for alternate storage. There is no mention in docs or such a possibility, so I assume it is not possible. Is that correct? While I am at it, is it possible to configure primary storage as maildir (sturdy indexes) and altstorage as mdbox (more del...

I wondered why mdbox_rotate_size is 2MB by default. I thought if I increased it to 16MB, maybe there would be less disk io, but I dont see any difference. Furthermore I read in some thread that increasing it from 2MB, could give problems when deleting messages, can someone explain this? Does anyone have this on a cephfs mount...

Anyone else test using different values? Was 2M chosen as a default based on anything specific? Is there any kind of known range where performance starts to go downhill if its greater than x or less than y? Im curious if there would be any obvious reason why I shouldnt set it to 5-10 megs

The mdbox_rotate_size and mdbox_rotate_min_size parameters are specified in bytes not kilobytes. doc/example-config/conf.d/mail.conf: # Maximum dbox file size in kilobytes until it's rotated. #mdbox_rotate_size = 2048 # Minimum dbox file size in kilobytes before it's rotated # (overrides mdbox_rotate_days) #...

...s. Is the backup consistent? What would happens if I lose indexes? Can I still recover the messages? Reading the doc it seems I would lose all the message flags and all the messages would be in INBOX, is this right? *3? Performance tuning with mdbox* I have read in dovecot archive about using mdbox_rotate_size & mdbox_rotate_interval to balance between a lot of smaill files (like Maildir) or really big files (a "variant" of mbox). I have tested with a big vaule of mdbox_rotate_size (100 MB) and is a complete disaster for backup:if a user delete a message, then a nightly cronjob purges the m...

...e indexes, but I am not sure about dbox. Should we also restore "old indexes" and merge with the "new indexes" in order to restore the deleted messages? - The previous question applies to sdbox and mdbox. In the case of mdbox, we can configure rotation of files using /mdbox_rotate_size/ . We would like to rotate daily, not based in size (our users ask us for yesterday's backup). How can we accomplish this? We have now 17.000.000 messages in our maildir, almost 1.5 TB (zlib compresssion enabled). Our backup time with bacula is rather bad: 24 hours for a full backup,...

...ommend a ?thin? logical volume ? Our storage (IBM Storwize v7000) already have thin provisioning capabilities. The server will be a VMware virtual machine running Debian with RDM LUNs of 500GB. Data blocks will be automatically spread across several RAID disk (SSD, SAS, SATA) by the v7000. The ?mdbox_rotate_size? will be configured around 10MB. Thanks, Nicolas C.

Hello everyone, I am currently evaluating dovecot for our new email production servers (20k+ mailboxes) and found out something strange. I'm using those settings on Dovecot 2.2.4 (x86_64 / Slackware / compiled from sources) mdbox_rotate_size = 128M mdbox_rotate_interval = 1d mdbox_preallocate_space = yes with virtual users and location like : mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox I don't think the remaining config is relevant but ask me if you need some other parts. Using test accounts for 2 weeks now I've figured that the 128M pre...

Hi, How to tune the size of each "m.xxx" file in mdbox format , in order to optimize the ratio size/number of files ? (I can see for instance more than 100 000 files in one directory due to very large mailbox size) If such parameter exists, what is the typical value ? Thanks Joan

...quite sure, but it almost seems like every storage file that contains messages to be moved is simply split into two parts, even if a part might only contain a single message. This seems quite curious, since the idea of mdbox is after all to store as many messages in a single file as fits in mdbox_rotate_size, and dovecot-lda can quite successfully append messages to existing storage files. So why can't doveadm altmove? Is this the expected behavior, or is there something wrong with my setup? Thanks again, Lauri

...------------------------- doveconf: # 2.2.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.4 ext4 mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/attachments mail_attachment_hash = %{md5} mail_attachment_min_size = 16 k mail_location = mdbox:/var/mail/user/%n mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 weeks mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M ------------------------------------- directory: root at xxx:/var/mail/user/xxx/storage# ls -al ... -rw------- 1 vmail mail 14433784 M?r 16 13:51 m.00000034 ...

...figuration. A "doveadm block -u <joe> -m 'sorry: running maintenance, please, come back later'" alike tool/funtionality would be ideal. Background: I would like to avoid any modification of my user's maildirs by a running dovecot server while modifying maildir formats, mdbox_rotate_size setting, and alike, where I would need doveadm/dsnyc access to userdb. (I know there a ways to achieve this without downtimes, and I have already done so.) I just want to be sure that I haven't overseen such a tool/functionality in the documentation. Did I or didn't I? Thanks and regards,...

Hi folks! I converted some of the spools on my mail server from maildir to mdbox. It went smoothly and the performance has been great. However, I have two questions regarding the process. First, I failed to notice the fairly low default mdbox_rotate_size, and I changed it in dovecot.conf after the migration. Is it possible to somehow make that change retroactive, to coalesce the couple thousand "storage/m.*" files that are anywhere from a few hundred bytes up to a few megabytes, into a smaller number of larger files, without re-doing the...

...apability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext vacation-seconds imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve > mdbox_rotate_size = 128 M > namespace inbox { > inbox = yes > location = > mailbox Drafts { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Drafts > } > mailbox Junk { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Junk > } > mailbox Sent...

...disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log listen = [::] log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_log_prefix = %Us(%u): mdbox_rotate_size = 2 k passdb { args = /etc/master.passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { home = /usr/dovecot2 } service auth { executable = /usr/dovecot2/libexec/dovecot/auth user = root } service imap-login { chroot = login client_limit = 256 executable = /u...

...propose, but i am wondoring how would dovecot convert this, like if i convert all mail from maildir to mdbox it would make many mailbox based on this seetings ? Or in the first convert it would make a big mdbox file and after it it will rotate by day or it would make many boxes just based on size? mdbox_rotate_size = 5m mdbox_rotate_interval = 1d Well, another thing can i make rotate interval happens in a certain time of day? end from where it takes this time ? it rotates at midnight ? Another one!, if i lose the index files what really happens ? Sometimes in my server the index get corrupet and as i am rea...

...ilto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_write_locks = dotlock mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 weeks mdbox_rotate_size = 20 M mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = sub...

...fts fts_solr managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mdbox_rotate_size = 10 M mmap_disable = yes namespace inbox { ? inbox = yes ? location = ? mailbox Drafts { ??? special_use = \Drafts ? } ? mailbox Junk { ??? special_use = \Junk ? } ? mailbox Sent { ??? special_use = \Sent ? } ? mailbox "Sent Messages" { ??? special_use = \Sent ? } ? mailbox Trash { ??? s...

...h = no haproxy_trusted_networks = 10.10.189.28,10.10.189.29 imap_capability = IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS listen = 10.10.189.25 mail_location = mdbox:%h/mdbox mail_max_userip_connections = 0 mail_plugins = zlib mdbox_rotate_size = 10 M namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash...