One thing you might do on the existing system that should improve performance is switch to mbx-format mailboxes from standard mbox.
The downside is that anything other than UW IMAP, pine (or other c-client applications maybe) will not be able to directly access the mailboxes. If mailbox access is IMAP-only then this will be fine. If needed, you can convert them back to mbox. the short summary is that you need to use mailutil to create the new mailboxes and dmail to deliver into them. Beware that if you do not specify the correct flags to mailutil, it will default to creating a plain old mbox format file. On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:45:03PM +1100, Roy Giles wrote: > Hello, > > Our mail system resides on a fairly old Sparc machine running Solaris 2.6 > which is grinding to a halt; as a start in eventually moving off this machine, > we are thinking of moving our unix style mailbox format imap server :- > > IMAP4rev1 2004.357 > > on to a Linux box with mail still being delivered by smtp to the Solaris box. > > Could anyone with experience of running imap over NFS please comment on their > experiences pro and con, especially in the realm of locking. > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Imap-uw mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
