Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

[Mike Eggleston]

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