On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:55:33AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:50:01PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > In summary: If you have big mailboxes, like mailinglists, > > you will go better with Maildir or IMAP > > Mail store format and the remote access method are orthogonal, except in > the case of Cyrus. UW lets you store IMAP accessible mail in mbox,
And, for the record, Cyrus uses an MH-like store (looks a lot like Maildir), with indexes for the most needed headers. The indexes work so well, that a folder that with maildir would take mutt a minute to open (100k+ messages, xfs), takes about 5s in Cyrus with a proper IMAP client (Mulbelry. Anyone knows of a DFSG MUA that is actually a real IMAP client and not some lame-ass kludge on top of a filesystem/pop3 client like mutt or Thunderbird?) Of course, you better have that Cyrus spool on a serious filesystem, like XFS or 2.6.11 ext3 with btrees and htrees enabled, or else the server will dislike heavily users that attempt to place too many messages in a folder... Also, for the record, IMHO UW IMAPd is a horrid joke of a imap daemon that should have already died an horrible death two years ago, or at the very least it should come with a surgeon's general warning that says "Do not use this crap if your folders have typically more than 100 messages". -- Henrique M. Holschuh (still without his witty sig :( ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
