Morten Nilsen wrote: > Sorry for this offtopic post, but I'm sure I can get good answers here :) > > Here's my problem; > I have a 486 box running linux, serving as my IMAP server inhouse (only > one user), and it's dreadfully slow to access my mailboxes (esp. those > with 2000+ messages) > > I do have several other linuxboxen around the place, and I thus have > this question; > What kind of system would I need for a decent IMAP performance?
Well, it depends ;) If you are running something like UW-IMAPd then your poor little box has to load the _complete_ folder into memory. This can take a lot of time, especially if it hasn't to much memory and thus starts swapping. First I would suggest using e.g. Courier-Imapd, which uses the maildir format instead of the mbox format. That means, that all mails of one folder aren't stored in one large file but as seperate files in one directory. Second, disk speed is also a main factor. Cheers, Juri
