On 12/20/06, Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Ron Culler wrote: > > > The problem that we are seeing is that this server only has a few > > mailboxes on it but they may have as much as 50k files in them. The end > > user is using the squirrelmail front end to access the boxes via IMAP. > > When someone opens a box it can take 2-3 min for it to display or even > > time-out with an IMAP error back to SM. Is there any thing that can be > > done to improve the performance both from a box load and a search angle? > > I think you will find that this is mostly a client-side issue. I have > several mail folders with 50K and more messages in them. I use the Courier > IMAP 4.1.1 (oob setup) with the following clients: pine, thunderbird, > evolution and kmail. The time taken to open a large folder varies hugely > between these: for a folder with 86100 messages, pine takes 3-4 seconds to > open, whereas evolution and kmail take many minutes, and thunderbird is > somewhere in between. The IMAP server is on a 2.1 GHz Athlon box (RHEL AS > 3.1) and the clients were on a 2 GHz Athlon box (Core 6). Courier IMAP > itself seems to be extremely fast: using pine, I can check my entire > collection of 622 folders (containing 994,000 messages) for unseen mail in > 20 seconds. > > Steve
The guy that checks the spam account here uses Roundcube[1] because it is significantly faster than Squirrelmail[2]. [1] http://www.roundcube.net/ [2] http://www.squirrelmail.org -- Eduardo Bacchi Kienetz LPI Certified - Level 2 http://www.noticiaslinux.com.br/eduardo/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
