> > > --On Monday, December 20, 2004 16:14 -0800 Prasanna Buddhika > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have win2000 server running exchange 2000 server. >> There are 2 large email accounts (700000 emails in a >> single account) which we don't want to delete. But I >> want to move these 2 accounts to Linux machine with >> cyrus-imap server. Migration went very well. Only >> problem is the speed. When the 2 mail accounts on the >> exchange server and when I use exchange method to >> access the account via Microsoft outlook client it >> won't take even 1 minute to show all the massages. But >> if I use cyrus-imap to retriew (sync) the email it >> takes 30 minutes. But after sync it’s fast. Only >> problem is when ever I logged off the system and log >> back in to the system again I have to wait 30 minutes >> to access the mail. Can anyone have a good suggestion >> to speedup this apart from deleting emails.:) > > Ditch outhouse, get a real MUA. Mulberry does really well with large > message stores, not sure about others offhand. Hell even PINE does better > than Outlook. The problem is Outlook speaks Exchange, and POP. It > doesn't > do IMAP, nor does Thunderbird/NetScape. I can hear you all screaming 'BUT > THEY SPEAK IMAP!' -- no they don't. If they spoke IMAP they wouldn't' > need > to 'syncronize' at all. They use IMAP to download ALL the message > headers. > And then they work it like a regular local mail store, except the bodies > point off to the IMAP system. Mulberry (Again Mulberry and PINE are the > only two I can think of offhand that do it RIGHT, not to say that there > aren't others!!!) will let the server do the work, and the server has > Indices. I can open basically unlimited size mailboxes instantly. > Mulberry and PINE both just as for the messages inside the view range. > > Running a current enough version of Cyrus threading is even done server > side. Searches are always done server side. Outlook is not an IMAP > client > AFAIC. It's a POP client that's been botched to try to use IMAP, same > with > T-bird.
The nice thing about Thunderbird is that it works fine. Same goes for recent kmail versions. Mulberry and PINE may do it better, but they don't look better. Simon Simon --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
