On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Adam Tauno Williams might have said: > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 14:12 +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > On 11/16/2010 12:30 PM, Dave McMurtrie wrote: > > > Good morning, > > > This may be slightly off-topic, so apologies in advance. Is there > > > anyone out there who allows unlimited quota for their users or provides > > > extremely large quotas when asked for? > > > If so, can you describe any problems you've had with this? > > We have users with > 5 GB. > > Our largest quota's a 4GB; without any issues. > > I think the issue you will encounter first is clients will start to fall > down when folders exceed a 'reasonable' number of messages. Common IMAP > clients I've seen start to exhibit severe performance issues beyond a > few hundred thousand messages. > > > We haven't seen any problems with them. The only general problem we > > face is taking backups of a full store. It just takes very long to > > complete full backups. (Of course that isn't tied to large or no quota.) > I have two users that have over 4GB of email. I manage a small shop, around 25 users depending on the time of year. The support and sales people insist on keeping all mail messages ad infitium. I have no quotas. Mike ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
