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.
I suspect the the standard Redhat 9 uw-imap is not the best imap implementation for this type of usage. Cyrus is interesting but I suspect a bear to administer, and I don’t know what else to consider. What have you found to be faster for users with huge mail accounts, what kind of speed enhancements work, and how did you migrate the users?
RE: file system type usage; you might want to look at the file manager plugin.
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