hi On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Georg Lutz wrote:
> You might already know the paper "An analysis of Database-Driven Mail > Servers" (sparrow.ece.cmu.edu/~parno/pubs/lisa.pdf) . This is a fairly old paper, not sure what courier version they were running back in 2003. And their hardware choice is very questionable too, especially from IO standpoint. > There is also referenced the DBMail project (http://www.dbmail.org) . Lots of buzz words there, but I have yet to see a single "serious" user of their product. Serious as in "have more than 2,000 users with 2Gb plus mailboxes" on (how many) servers. Courier could probably benefit from header indexing, but the benefits are not obvious since most mail clients do this on their own anyway. I'd like to see a courier vs dovecot comparison, which is using Maildir with indexes to see if it makes sense to implement server-side indexing. It looks like it may make sense to do so, especially with large mailboxes (over 10,000 msgs in a single folder), but I couldn't find any hard data proving or disproving that. thanks -- rgds, serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
