Hello Abhay, On Sunday, January 12, 2003, Abhay Kulkarni wrote... > It is pretty clear from IMAP that better don't use qmail. Or use it > with courier Imap sacrificing the performance & robustness and other > things...( that is what they say)
What performance hits are you taking by changing to courier or the such? If you'd like my honest opinion, I think Courier and other Maildir based IMAP servers are in general a lot faster than UW-IMAP. Imagine the scenario (this is what happened to me, and one of the reasons I changed), you have 25,000 emails, ranging in size from 1kb to 9M (attachments). For UW-IMAP to get the headers of each message, it has to open one large file, and read every line in the file to retrieve certain headers. For a large mail file, this is obviously going to take time. In the Maildir format, it can open the multiple single files, and just pull out what is needed, and requested. This in general makes it faster. > Jason is using qmail/vmailmgr/courier-imap/squirrelmail combination. > Is it really so, Jason ? Actually I don't use maildir format & I > wanted Squirrelmail for qmail in Mailbox format . The suggestion by > Grant Basham is a nice one. Thank you Grant. I use Maildir, and have personally found the performance, and robustness of the system has increased a hell of a lot. There are other minor advantages to Maildir, if you get a corrupt mail file, hell, it's one mail file that is dead. You get a corrupt file in mbox style, and you could be in for a long night ;) That is just one of course. Some other small ones include better handling for multiple logins, UW-IMAP throws fits if POP3 is trying to access the INBOX while IMAP is logged in (file locks), which you don't get in Maildir/ -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
