I think that the default of 5 connections works well on modern IMAP servers most companies would buy.
True. That doesn't mean that 5 connections is needed. I see 5 connections as needed only for the heaviest of users; far heavier than I have ever seen. I can't even begin to contimplate 5 connections being needed so why waste other people's resources, even if they can "afford" it at the time? :)
SpamAssassin and other stuff on the box plus heavy IMAP use just pushed it a bit over the top. It's now an Athlon 2500 with 1G RAM and even SquirrelMail is relatively speedy on it.
Yeah. Wish I could go back to hosting on my file server here. I built it out when I was hosting my domain on DSL. 200Gb HD, 667Mhz something (was speedy at the time and still plenty for my needs), 768ishMB of RAM. Cramming everything (apache, bind, imap, exim, spamassassin, clamav, squirrelmail) into a 128Mb VPS is a pain. :(
Pulling mail to the client machine seems so wrong if you get used to the
> whole IMAP thing.
Agreed. The annoying part is that it's taken the better part of a decade for mail clients to do IMAP right. I remember hosting the mailing list for PMMail back in my OS/2 days ('94-'95) and typing 'til my fingers cramped about how IMAP should be. Back then IMAP was primarily used as a glorified POP. A lot of people and client still see it as that. Just another way to get mail onto the local machine. People just didn't get it back then.
Even worse was around 2k when IMAP clients started using remote folders.... but not for "system" stuff like... sent-mail, drafts, trash... TheBat came so close back then.
I think the first client that I can point to that actually allowed all folders on the server side was Outlook. Pains me to say it but it's true. Thunderbird and Evolution are the other two offerings that do it easily now and both, thankfully enough, also dropped the whole "personalities not accounts" paradigm made so popular by Eudora and the fetchmail gang. That substandard model just doesn't work when dealing with multiple IMAP accounts.
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