On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:23:05 -0600 "Jeffrey Smelser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone have an opinion (on this board? no way!) ;-) about whether > > courier-imap or cyrus-imap would be a better choice for me? > > Courier seems to be better.. Faster.. I have used both.. cyrus uses the mbox > format and your back to using huge files again and the problems that go with > it. I really liked courier-imapd, because it's much faster than any mbox-imap-server. Then I tried bincimap, which is also a IMAP4Rev1 server for the maildir format. It's a little bit strange, because it doesn't get started by xinetd or the like, but comes with its own spawning-daemon and log-daemon, but when I compare performance, bincimap always wins over courier. It especially can handle large folders much better than courier-imapd. I've got a folder with >30.000 messages in it, courier-imap in combination with sylpheed-claws takes about 2 and a half minutes to check for new messages and sync them. bincimap performs this task in about 20 seconds. bincimap is in portage, and it can, without any problems, be installed in parallel to courier-imapd. Give it a try, I like it :) -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt
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