On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 at 23:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > it was sooo slow, compared to the student mail server which uses
> > cyrus-style maildir...my inbox there, with 2500+ messages was actually
> > faster with IMP.
>
> Aha! At last someone mentions Cyrus. I moved from UW IMAP and mboxes to
> Courier IMAP and Maildirs. So far so good. The Cyrus homepage touts its
> proprietary MH-like format to be good for large mailboxes, though. I
> wonder which of the two (Maildir or Cyrus-type) is indeed better for large
> mailboxes.
>
> Would anyone have thoughts or URLs of benchmarks comparing the two formats
> and/or the two IMAP servers?
>
Off hand i'll say that whatever diff there is between the two, it'll still
be pretty close, as the biggest delay will always be the disk I/O speed.
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