I have an e-mail account that I have never purged. It currently uses 9GB+ of disk space (out of 70GB) with music and videos, PowerPoint presentations, zipped software, etc...
Will RoundCube handle it? Is there a limit? (I'm on a high-end server).
Thanks,
The way I understand it, the maximum size will be the size of your partition. So you really are unlimited in size as far as the software goes. You will probably want to keep your inbox and sent boxes small though for usability. Just make other folders to empty them into and you should be able to fill your hard drive. I actually have my e-mail server a seperate server from where my RoundCube is installed. RoundCube itself doesn't really use much disk space. It's just the e-mail server that holds the actual messages. So in theory you could also load balance.
Come to think of it, I wonder if there is a way for RoundCube to POP the messages instead of just viewing them through IMAP. I don't even think it can be setup that way. If you could than, RoundCube would pull down the message from the e-mail server and store it in it's own database. Of course, databases do often have size limits by default. There not quite as easy to grow to fill the hard drive as the IMAP method.
Hmmm, now that I'm thinking about that, (sorry to keep rambling) technically your ability to fill the drive depends on how your e-mail is stored. Some storage methods keep your entire folder in one file. Than you would have file size limitations which with any current journalled file system you also wouldn't have to worry about. Other storage methods have one message per file. In the case of having all your e-mail in one file, you definitely get performance hits as the folder gets very big and you definitely want to try to break them down into seperate folders.
Well that's my $0.02 worth.
