On Dec 14, 2005, at 9:57 PM, John P. Speno wrote:
Hi, my name is John, and I'm a former unix sys admin but I gave it
up to be a programmer (yay python!). Now I'm back in the sys admin
game for a small family business that needs to scale its order
management system better and I think cyrus and IMAP is just the
thing, but I just wanted to get a little feedback.
All orders a now tracked in an Apple Mail.app POP account so
there's thousands of locally stored folders containing mail
messages on one machine (backed up nightly of course).
I need to share that among several machines now so many people can
process the inbox and arrange the folders as needed. That's
basically IMAP, right?
Beyond that, my concerns are performance and backups. Since the
IMAP server will be out on the net, I assume Mail.app's local
caching will make searching the mail as fast as it is now. Any clue?
But what about backups? Supposing I lost the server and it's mail.
Would I be able to reconstruct it from the locally cached copy in
Mail.app?
Thanks!
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john,
just watch out for the apple mail app, I have located corruption by
the client , when it is used against an cyrus-imap system.
I am currently working it through with apple engineering.
Lukily for you , the bug relates to the way apple mail caches its
mails & attachments. ( so DON'T)
That said, once it is fixed, you can use the mail client to cache the
emails locally , then use apple spotlight to index & search them.
As for your folder system, yes you CAN do that and it does work very
well, ( we use exactly the same system in our office)
Backups
there is YET ANOTHER bug with the mail app, in that it can make
backups, but they cannot be used later , (way to go apple, let the
user think they have a backup), in fact they are totally useless.
(so DON'T)
try the microsoft mail client.
Steve
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