On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:17 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:29:22PM +0200, Nick Demou wrote: > > > > courier-IMAP was easy to install and setup > > > > works fine with many users accessing the same maildir about 20 > > maildirs in a low spec server. Hundreds of folders per maildir with > > some of them having up to 30000 emails > > > > With outlook express I have some problems now and then that get fixed > > by doing a "clear local cache" on OE. Only once had a problem with > > thunderbird (started constantly complaining that it could not save the > > email it just sent to the INBOX folder while at the same time it HAD > > saved it). Worked around this annoyance and didn't try to fix it > > > The main gotcha with Courier, is that by default it only allows 4 > connections per IP, but T-bird tries to make 5. You can fix that in > either place (probably the server if you have lots of users).
I've change the number of connections from a single IP to 75, especially when running X-Terminal supporting 10+ people at the same time. Usually it just works otherwise. The only thing I have to change is causing exim4 to use $HOMEDIR/Maildir delivery vs. /var/spool/mail. And this bit about not being able to handle large amounts of mail? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ du -ks Maildir/ 313998560 Maildir/ All served up via courier-imap-ssl. Hope that clears it up. Also, I've scaled courier-imap upto ~700 users with ~100 continuous users accessing, using a single processor with 4G of memory, a single FC SCSI card to a SAN. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]