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Learn how to choose between Maildir and sdbox storage in Dovecot to prevent inode exhaustion in high-volume mail environments.
Learn how to enable Dovecot’s Full‑Text Search using Solr, index existing mail, and verify sub‑second search latency while understanding the operational trade‑offs.
Learn how Dovecot uses binary indexing to eliminate mailbox hangs and optimize IMAP SELECT operations by decoupling metadata from physical mail storage.
Stop IMAP sync hangs in Dovecot. Learn how to leverage indexing and the doveadm utility to optimize large mailboxes and reduce disk I/O.
Dovecot’s built‑in quota plugin lets providers enforce size and message limits per mailbox or domain with minimal overhead. This blog explains why it’s practical, shows how to configure file‑based or SQL backends, walks through a 100 MB domain quota example, and discusses trade‑offs and next steps.
In a typical Dovecot installation, the IMAPS service listens on all available network interfaces (0.0.0.0:993 and [::]:993) unless explicitly restricted. When a server possesses multiple interfaces—such as a public NIC for web traffic and a private NIC for internal services—administrators risk exposing the IMAPS port to the Internet if the listener is not bo