Re: [Nolug] IMAP and performance

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:02, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > Some of the directories will have 30,000+ emails in them. Will
> > there be a performance problem fetching emails from the server?
>
> Use a good filesystem like ReiserFS or XFS and that should let you
> handle the emails ok (assuming that you are talking about using
> maildirs).

Yeah, thanks.

> Another thing to consider: Cyrus IMAP. Last I checked, it didn't do
> virtual domains, but it can handle most anything you need and will
> probably be faster than other IMAP implementations. Also, it has a
> built in filter language called Sieve and built-in filter update
> protocol that, it looks like, the Evolution hackers seem to be
> working. Search "+site:www.mail-archive.com evolution sieve" on
> Google.

That's way overkill for just 2 people (4, when the kids get old
enough). I'll be trying Courier.

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