Thanks! I'll Try this out. 'Jopoy
Mensahe ni Kenneth Oncinian... > Jopoy C. Solano wrote: >> Hi. >> >> Are there any open source webmail software that opens as fast as >> yahoo? I'm currently using squirrel mail (I tweaked conf.php already). >> And it seems that the larger my mail box is, the longer it takes to >> download... obviously :) > > Hi Jopoy, > > Yes, the larger your mailbox the longer squirrelmail will take to > download your mailbox, SM is parsing your filesystem for your mails and > displaying it via a web interface, so just like what you said...the > problem is "obvious" ;-), it really is slow because of factors like disk > I/O, latency, filesystem type, etc. Hence, personally, I dont think any > webmail interface is significantly faster than the other. > > The most suitable setup that I find for a webmail service is by *NOT* > using Mailbox or Maildir for mail stores but by using SQL database(s) to > store the messages, this makes a lot of sense because database queries > are much faster than parsing a filesystem. > > What I am using for this kind of solution is dbmail > (http://www.dbmail.org). Like I said, since its using database to store > the mails, webmail experience is much, much faster than when using > Mbox/Maildir. > > My dbmail setup is: > Postfix -> Amavisd-new -> Postfix -> Dbmail > > POP3 and IMAP daemons are included in dbmail so you need not to worry > about those. > > > > > regards, > Kenneth Oncinian > ----------------------- University of Baguio General Luna Road Baguio City Philippines 2600 Phone: +63(74)442-3540 Fax: +63(74)442-3071 http://www.ubaguio.edu -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
