On 2006-11-11 13:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > we are considering to develop a new feature for the courier imap daemon that > should improve the performance of the SEARCH command. > Our point is that we want thousands of users been able to make searches into > its mailboxes (which are growing day by day) without loading a lot disk > drives. > > We are in the first steps, trying to analyze our options & alternatives, and > our first approach is to modify the source code of the courier's SEARCH > implementation in order to make it use an index back-end produced by lucene or > whatever. > > And we have some questions we need you to answer. Thanks in advance. > > 1. Do you know any other project or innitiative trying to make something > simmilar?
You might already know the paper "An analysis of Database-Driven Mail Servers" (sparrow.ece.cmu.edu/~parno/pubs/lisa.pdf) . There is also referenced the DBMail project (http://www.dbmail.org) . -- Georg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
