On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:40, Jon Nelson wrote: > 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.
Your request is fair. It makes me raise other question tough: Exists a benchmark for the IMAP protocol? This way you can measure how much dovecot beats courier-imap. I'am planning to deploy a 'big' courier setup and will be nice to gather some metrics about performance for the pop3,imap,local deliveries, etc. Somebody know how to do it? Some in-house bencharks to share? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
