[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am wondering if SW will work well for large installations.
We currently use it for ~1500 accounts, I know of installations > 10,000. Some experience with load balancing would probably be necessary though. > The > last ISP I did some work for (about 1 million mailboxes) switched from a > defunct commercial product to Horde. But Horde suffered from a lot of > overhead, doing a pop/imap login for every page update and transferring > all the data each time. Take a look at the imapproxy project http://www.imapproxy.org. This prevents the login/logout problems by caching a connection to the imap server. > (I don't know if the "fixes" were ever contributed > back to the project.) > > One of the reasons I waited so long to try SquirrelMail was > because (to my knowledge) it doesn't access Maildir format directly. No it doesn't. Squirrelmail and most other webmail servers want to offer compatability with the most mail servers possible. For that reason they interface with known standards like IMAP or POP3 rather than directly with a particulare mail server's storage format such as Maildir, mbox or a database. One webmail solution that does interface directly with Maildirs is Courier SQWebmail (http://www.courier-mta.org/sqwebmail). But's it's somewhat ugly, not very user friendly and much harder to customize. > I > haven't worked with any very large sites using Maildir - I suspect using > imap may be the only practical way to set up multiple webmail front ends, > anyway. I'd just like to reduce the overhead on my (admittedly > underworked) system. Load balancing would be the way to go for a large installation. Jay -- Jay Lee Network / Systems Administrator Information Technology Dept. Philadelphia Biblical University -- I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. --Calvin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
