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by gexcolo 3068 days ago
Sure, the mail storage currently takes up 1.01TB, using dovecot's mdbox. This mail store started in January 2016, after the service got raided twice by german authorities[0] (at request of u.s. gov), otherwise it would be larger.

I'm not going to run like per-user stats but I know historically there's been about 11kb per E-mail on average, so that's about 90 million mails stored. The MTA itself sends and receives a bit over 20 million E-mails annually, so the extra from that is probably from the mailing list I run on the same server (where each message only counts as 1 for statistical purposes)

How I prevent outgoing abuse is a black box, but I do it well enough that mail from my server almost never ends up in spam. But given that it's a free service I definitely don't have the budget to warm up and dynamically scatter mail across IP space to maximize deliverability. Cool technique, though!

[0] https://archive.is/etfDM

[0] https://archive.is/etfDM

2 comments

Nice, thanks! Our average message size is about 200kB (and total of 30-40TB). No wonder though as anything from Mailchimp is 300kB nowadays.
Hey man, off topic, but did you ever get your electronics back?