I recently gave Dovecot a try.
It's not nearly as featureful (or seemingly as stable) as
courier-imap, but it has one very important distinction:

It is *wicked* fast.

It made me think - indexes are what makes dovecot so fast.  What would
it take to add similar indexing capabilities to courier-imap?  My
understanding is that dovecot indexes just the meta-data about a message
(not the body itself, although I think it can be configured to do that).
I use swish++ to manually index my maildirs but something in the server
would be much nicer (and faster!)  I was amazed -- it normally takes
15-20 seconds to sort one of my folders, and much longer to search.
Dovecot was able to do it in about 1 second.  It appeared to take
approx. 5 seconds to perform the initial indexing.

--
Ensign Walnut approaches Dr. Crusher with caution...

Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
C and Python Code Gardener


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