Morten Nilsen said: > Chris Mason wrote: >> We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to >> users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the >> company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or >>received, >> and routinely sends 8 MB emails. His mail is topping 4 GB sorted into >> various folders, and he is bringing our 2 X 2.4 GHz Xeon server to a >>halt. >> His email account has become a file system, as he travels extensively >>and >> wants access to these files while on the road using Squirrelmail. As he >>is >> the president I can�t tell him to clean up his act. My biggest fear is >>he >> will insist on a move to Exchange and that it would be faster as I have >> always advocated Linux servers. > > sounds to me like squirrelmail is the wrong client. > > I use mozilla mailnews to read my 14k+ mail folders and it's lightning > fast. > > let's face it, squirrelmail sucks at handling large folders.
That's because you've got most of the headers/messages cached on the local machine which would never be possible with a webmail client. Squirrelmail does not suck on large folders but it's never going to be as fast as a "real" IMAP client that does local caching. I can open the first 50 message list of my 11k message folder in 3 seconds flat. That's using Courier and Maildir though, doing the same thing on UW-IMAP/mbox would be quite painful. Jay -- Jay Lee Network / Systems Administrator Information Technology Dept. Philadelphia Biblical University -- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ -- 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)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
