{"id":1367,"date":"2009-01-27T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2009-01-27T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:58:40","slug":"so-how-much-email-am-i-storing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/so-how-much-email-am-i-storing\/","title":{"rendered":"So… how much email am I storing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

stewart@saturn:~$ time du -sh Maildir
\n15G\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Maildir<\/p>\n

real\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 0m55.749s
\nuser\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 0m1.008s
\nsys\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 0m17.205s<\/p>\n

interestingly the tar.bz2 archive of this is only 3.4GB.<\/p>\n

It also takes *much* longer to run this on my laptop (over 5 minutes). mmmm… raid.<\/p>\n

I’ve also deleted a lot of mailing list mail over the years… i wonder what that would be if i hadn’t….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

stewart@saturn:~$ time du -sh Maildir 15G\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Maildir real\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 0m55.749s user\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 0m1.008s sys\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 0m17.205s interestingly the tar.bz2 archive of this is only 3.4GB. It also takes *much* longer to run this on my laptop (over 5 minutes). mmmm… raid. I’ve also … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-m3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4293,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/how-i-do-email-at-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":1367,"position":0},"title":"How I do email (at home)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2017-11-28","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought I might write something up on how I've been doing email both at home and at work. 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