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diff --git a/mail-setup b/mail-setup
index 08ec7ae..9c46689 100755
--- a/mail-setup
+++ b/mail-setup
@@ -2061,6 +2061,23 @@ protocol lmtp {
 # default is just $mail_plugins
   mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve
 }
+
+# /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf says the default is 256M.
+# but I started getting oom errors in the syslog
+# Mar 27 15:10:04 sy dovecot[330088]: lmtp(iank)<3839880><gO/BDwtvBGaIlzoA7AdaJQ>: Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 3839880 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service lmtp { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1 environment to get core dump)
+# exim would just queue mail until it eventually succeeded.
+# Deciding what to increase it to, I found this
+# https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-December/080056.html
+# which suggests 3x the largest dovecot.index.cache file
+# and then I found that
+# md/l/testignore/dovecot.index.cache is 429M, my largest cache file,
+# but that folder only has 2k messages.
+# next biggest is md/l/qemu-devel/dovecot.index.cache 236M
+# which lead to me a search https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/known_issues/large_cache/
+# which suggests 1.5x the maximum cache file size 1G, and
+# that I can safely rm the index.
+default_vsz_limit = 1500M
+
 EOF
       if dpkg --compare-versions "$(dpkg-query -f='${Version}\n' --show dovecot-core)" ge 1:2.3; then
         cat <<EOF
@@ -2084,30 +2101,24 @@ EOF
     fi
 
     rm -fv /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-lmtp.conf # file from prev version
+
+    # Having backups of indexes is a waste of space. This also means we
+    # don't send them around with btrbk, I think it is probably
+    # preferable use a bit more cpu to recalculate indexes.
+    install -d -o iank -g iank /var/dovecot-indexes
     cat >>/etc/dovecot/local.conf <<EOF
 
-# /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf says the default is 256M.
-# but I started getting oom errors in the syslog
-# Mar 27 15:10:04 sy dovecot[330088]: lmtp(iank)<3839880><gO/BDwtvBGaIlzoA7AdaJQ>: Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 3839880 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service lmtp { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1 environment to get core dump)
-# exim would just queue mail until it eventually succeeded.
-# Deciding what to increase it to, I found this
-# https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-December/080056.html
-# which suggests 3x the largest dovecot.index.cache file
-# and then I found that
-# md/l/testignore/dovecot.index.cache is 429M, my largest cache file,
-# but that folder only has 2k messages.
-# next biggest is md/l/qemu-devel/dovecot.index.cache 236M
-# which lead to me a search https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/known_issues/large_cache/
-# which suggests 1.5x the maximum cache file size 1G, and
-# that I can safely rm the indix
 
-default_vsz_limit = 1500M
+# This will decrease memory use, and seems likely to decrease cpu & disk
+# use since I rarely use dovecot for most folders.
+mail_cache_max_size = 50M
+
 
 # simple password file based login
 !include conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
 
 # ian: %u is used for alerts user vs iank
-mail_location = maildir:/m/%u:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/m/%u/INBOX
+mail_location = maildir:/m/%u:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/m/%u/INBOX:INDEX=/var/dovecot-indexes/%u
 mail_uid = $u
 mail_gid = $u