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 mail accounts, what kind of speed >> enhancements work, and how did you migrate the users? > > I recently switched from uw-imap on RedHat 8 to Courier-imap on Gentoo. > My own 22k item mailstore was becoming painfully slow, now using Courier > the performance is more than acceptable again. > I was previously using one of the php accelerators, with no discernable > improvement, so it's no longer part of the setup. > In the new setup I am also using up-imapproxy (http://www.imapproxy.org/) > which saves squirrelmail having to login and logout of the imap server > each time it wants to do anything. > I can definitely recommend Courier as a worthwhile improvement over uw.
I'm using courier under trustix, and SM is horribly slow when reading mail in a folder with 14k items (not counting subfolders) > I looked at Cyrus, but as all the users on my network are also shell account > users it seemed unnecessarily complex. I have the notion of Cyrus being a pita. mostly because I use cyrus-sasl for postfix authentication of users. -- Morten ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
