[mdlug] Quotas. How do they work?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 09:54 -0400, Michael ORourke wrote:
> One possible solution...
> Setup a logical volume, and add several terabytes of storage creating an 
> illusion of unlimited email storage.
> Then when users start to complain that it takes 10 minutes to open their 
> inbox, simply explain that is normal as the computer has to parse 100,000+ 
> emails.   ;-)

Either sadly, or happily, this won't work.  I've tested with a mailbox
with 150,000 messages.  With a modern version of Cyrus IMAPd & Horde
Webmail (imp) the folder opens nearly instantly.  With a modern client
like GNOME's Evolution the folder is available after a brief pause [and
fills-in on-the-fly] (this assumes you are using an IMAPX provisioned
account and not Evolutions legacy IMAP provider)