Craig Tinson wrote: >>UW-IMAP (the one you're currently using) stores it's mail in a plain mbox >>file. It is slow, doesn't scale and eats lot of memory if you have >>mailboxes > 50 MB (actually it seems to load it completely into memory). >>So having 10 users each with a mailbox size of 100MB (quite common) means >>you need 1000MB RAM - or a lot of SWAP space...
> ouch.. 1GB mem?? okies..definately will look at courier then.. don't > want to screw up the server (it only has 512Mb ram!!) Well, it needs only so much memory if all 10 users open their inboxes at the same time, but nevertheless... > actually.. there's only me that uses imap on the server.. but thats not > the point.. I want to move over 15,000 (over 200mb) msgs to it so don't > want to screw it up... You might want to also take a look at mb2md.pl, a script to convert mbox files (e.g. your local mozilla folders or the ones from UW-IMAP) into courier's maildir format. mb2md.pl is in unstable or available here: http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ Cheers, Juri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
