Re: [Nolug] IMAP and performance

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 13:22, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 11:03 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > At 11:40 PM 10/27/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > >I'd like to build a mail server out of a mini-ITX box with only a,
> > >probably, 600MHz Via C3 CPU.
> > >
> > >Some of the directories will have 30,000+ emails in them. Will
> > >there be a performance problem fetching emails from the server?
> >
> > Are you going to be using Courier or Cyrus? I just read a good
> > comparison of Courier and Cyrus (among others), and Cyrus tended to
> > stomp on Courier quite nicely. So off-hand I would say the first step
> > is to look strongly at Cyrus.
>
> When I was looking at these a while back, courier seemed to be the nicer
> one, loads and loads of features.

I've found that setting up fetchmail/postfix/SA/courier-imap/Evo
to be relatively simple on Debian Sarge. Followed a cookbook to
get SA linked in to postfix and postfix to IMAP

For now, Evo is doing the filtering. Had to alter the rules, of
course, since they assumed local storage.

> How does cyrus compare?

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