I am wondering if SW will work well for large installations. 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. (I don't know if the "fixes" were ever contributed back to the project.)
SM itself should not present any problems in such a scenario; the only way in which it could be slow would be on *huge* mailboxes, but even that is fixed in our development stream. The bottlenecks you are likely to face (as I'm sure you're well aware) are with web servers and IMAP responsiveness. SM is very lightweight and very fast (depending upon how many plugins you are running). Make sure to read:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/SquirrelMailPerformance
One of the reasons I waited so long to try SquirrelMail was because (to my knowledge) it doesn't access Maildir format directly. I
Why is this a reason not to use SM? This is a *good* thing. See Jay's response.
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.
I suspect accessing an IMAP daemon would be faster and FAR MORE SECURE than letting a webmail client loose on your maildirs.
- paul
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