Jay Lee wrote: > 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.
I never said sm should/could be as fast. -- Morten ------------------------------------------------------- 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
