> William Mussatto wrote: >> I'm not sure why sendmail would be the issue. Its more likely the >> program which handles IMAP (e.g., uw-imapd, courier) that is the >> issue. In the case of uw-imapd with the standard 'mailbox' set up, >> the imapd program must read and parse the entire file which contains >> the messages to figure out which are the last 15. This takes time. >> With a very large "mailbox" you could see a time out error. > > I haven't seen a timeout yet - my large mailbox has close to 6000 > messages and growing.. > But, from what you say, is there an alternative to imapd that will not > read the entire mailbox to find the last 15? What is your opinion of > courier? > > Thank you very much. > > Regards, > Somik No experience with anything but uw-imapd, sorry. BTW uw-imapd does have an alternative mailbox format which may scale better; however if you change formats you will need to look at procmail and probably sendmail to ensure they are modified to support the new format. I'd try it out on a test box first to make sure you have all the steps down. Google the archives for details its been discussed in some detail before.
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