Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-08 Thread Benny Pedersen
>> can’t tell him to clean up his act. My biggest fear is he will insist on a >> move to Exchange and that it would be >> faster as I have always advocated Linux servers. > sounds to me like squirrelmail is the wrong client. why did you com to that conclusion ? > I use mozilla mailnews to read

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-04 Thread pheonix1t
Jonathan Nichols wrote: I suspect the the standard Redhat 9 uw-imap is not the best imap implementation for this type of usage. :-O Oh no, it's probably the *worst* thing that you could use in that situation! bear to administer, and I don’t know what else to consider. What have you found to b

RE: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-04 Thread Chris Mason
> Have you taken a look into Courier-IMAP at all? If you're > using uw-imap, > chances are everything is in mbox format - there are many mbox -> > maildir utilities out there that will help you move to the > more robust > maildir format. It seems to the solution most offered, I will do some r

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-04 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I suspect the the standard Redhat 9 uw-imap is not the best imap implementation for this type of usage. :-O Oh no, it's probably the *worst* thing that you could use in that situation! bear to administer, and I don’t know what else to consider. What have you found to be faster for users with huge

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-04 Thread p dont think
We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or received, and routinely sends 8 MB emails. His mail is topping 4 GB sorted into various

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-04 Thread p dont think
let's face it, squirrelmail sucks at handling large folders. Let's face it, you haven't seen the mail threads that refer to the rewritten caching mechanisms in 1.5.1. Jay's post is correct, but you should be aware that there are noticable speed improvements in the development stream. -

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Morten Nilsen
Chris Shenton wrote: > Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Peter Campion-Bye wrote: I'm using courier under trustix, and SM is horribly slow when reading mail in a folder with 14k items (not counting subfolders) >>> >>> Do you have 'Allow server-side sorting = true' (Gen

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Chris Shenton
Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Campion-Bye wrote: >>> >>> I'm using courier under trustix, and SM is horribly slow when reading >>> mail in a folder with 14k items (not counting subfolders) >> >> Do you have 'Allow server-side sorting = true' (General options - item 12)? >> My

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Morten Nilsen
Jay Lee wrote: > Morten Nilsen said: >> Chris Mason wrote: >>> We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to >>> users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the >>> company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or >>>received, >>>

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Jay Lee
Peter Campion-Bye said: > I can definitely recommend Courier as a worthwhile improvement over uw. I > looked at Cyrus, but as all the users on my network are also shell account > users it seemed unnecessarily complex. Courier IMHO, offers sysadmins the best of both worlds, you can use auth_pam an

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Morten Nilsen
Peter Campion-Bye wrote: >> >> I'm using courier under trustix, and SM is horribly slow when reading >> mail in a folder with 14k items (not counting subfolders) > > Do you have 'Allow server-side sorting = true' (General options - item 12)? > My largest folder currently has 4100 items, and loads

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Jay Lee
Morten Nilsen said: > Chris Mason wrote: >> We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to >> users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the >> company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or >>received, >> and routinely sends 8 M

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Peter Campion-Bye
> > I'm using courier under trustix, and SM is horribly slow when reading > mail in a folder with 14k items (not counting subfolders) Do you have 'Allow server-side sorting = true' (General options - item 12)? My largest folder currently has 4100 items, and loads in under a second. --

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Todd Slater
Chris Mason wrote: [snip] I suspect the the standard Redhat 9 uw-imap is not the best imap implementation for this type of usage. Cyrus is interesting but I suspect a bear to administer, and I don’t know what else to consider. What have you found to be faster for users with huge mail accounts, what

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Morten Nilsen
Peter Campion-Bye wrote: >> >> I suspect the the standard Redhat 9 uw-imap is not the best imap >> implementation for this type of usage. Cyrus is interesting but I suspect >> a >> bear to administer, and I don’t know what else to consider. What have you >> found to be faster for users with huge ma

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Peter Campion-Bye
> > I suspect the the standard Redhat 9 uw-imap is not the best imap > implementation for this type of usage. Cyrus is interesting but I suspect > a > bear to administer, and I don’t know what else to consider. What have you > found to be faster for users with huge mail accounts, what kind of speed

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread John Madden
>> We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due >> to users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president >> of the company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone >> or received, and routinely sends 8 MB emails. His mail is topping 4 GB >> sorte

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Morten Nilsen
Chris Mason wrote: > We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to > users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the > company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or received, > and routinely sends 8 MB emails. His mail is toppin

Re: [SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Jay Lee
Chris Mason said: > We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to > users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the > company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or > received, Same thing I do, why should I be bothered to pull

[SM-USERS] Looking for advice on best IMAP implementation for speed

2004-12-03 Thread Chris Mason
We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or received, and routinely sends 8 MB emails. His mail is topping 4 GB sorted into various