Hiya Debian-users, On my mail server running Debian Woody with UW-IMAP and Sendmail, I've got ~200M of mail archived into several mbox folders in ~/Mail that I check both with IMAP and with mutt. As the folders have gotten larger, access has slowed significantly. I beleive part of this was due to the data becoming fragmented on disk, and so I stopped all mail services, created a tar of ~/Mail, moved ~/Mail to ~/Mail.old, and untarred the files back into ~/Mail. This caused a significant increase.........for a short while. In any case, I'm trying to find a way to make my IMAP access faster. I've considered converting to Maildir format but can't find an easy way to convert my existing mailboxes. I've also evaluated moving from UW-IMAP to Courier, which would probably help as well. What I'm asking is, essentially, if there is any good documentation on moving from a very basic setup (unix mbox, sendmail going to unix accounts, etc..) to what seems to be a more complex setup. As I understand it, courier likes to use its' own account database, and it would not be simple for procmail to filter into Maildirs. If there are ways that I can improve performance _without_ mucking my config around, it would be preferred, though I am pretty much convinced at this point that I need to tear it up and start from scratch :) Any help would be much appreciated :) -Justin -- Justin Ryan <justin@gnubian.org>
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