On 3/4/07, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course not.  My ISP uses Courier-IMAP to provide IMAP service for tens of
> thousands of users.  Couldn't get a definitive answer on their customer
> count, but a mailing list broker claims to own 22,000+ customer E-mail
> addresses.

Thanks, thats all I need to hear.

> As far as tens of thousands of messages per folder, the server itself won't
> have any issues, it's the underlying filesystem.  If your filesystem falls
> apart when there are tens of thousands of messages in a folder, that's that.
> There are filesystem that should easily handle hundreds of thousands of
> messages.

Yeah, that kind of thing is just plain dumb, but in practice doesn't
work on Cyrus anyway. My last email server setup was actually a cyrus
imap server which went funny with more than 1000 messages in a folder,
which the sent boxes tended to build after a while.

Thanks,

Lisa.

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