Re: Mailboxes, etc.
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 04:39, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 02:20, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:19, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > >
> > > > > maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access
> > > > > messages as individual files, and more robust. Plus 'From' doesn't need
> > > > > to be escaped at start of line.
> > > >
> > > > Why better performance? If there's lots of messages, directory
> > > > manipulation becomes very slow (at least on IDE drive).
> > >
> > > Directory insertion/deletion (Maildir) vs. file insertion/deletion
> > > (mbox).
> > >
> > > Mailder is far more robust (djb gets _some_ things right). And deals
> > > with simultaneous access and multiple updates (say, d-u, where I
> > > typically get new mail every few minutes) far better than mbox.
> > >
> > > I try to keep my mailboxes <1k messages, though with Maildir I've had
> > > 20k+ messages with few problems.
> >
> > While we're on the topic:
> >
> > I'm thinking of building an IMAP server out of a Via EPIA 5000 mobo
> > (533MHz Eden CPU http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=2#p2),
> > 512MB RAM & 40GB HDD.
> >
> > Will this have the "oomph" to open large mail directories, etc,
> > in a timely fashion? Only 2 people will be using it, but I get
> > ~3600 spams per day.
>
> My IMAP (Courier) server is an Athlon 650 with 128 MB of RAM, and an old
> (probably ATA 66, or maybe even 33) 8 GB hard drive. With it, opening up
> my debian-user folder which generally gets up to about 2k messages
> before I start archiving, takes about 3 seconds in Evolution. In mutt,
> since AFAIK mutt doesn't cache the folders at all, it can take 10 - 15
> seconds to open up at times. But once it's all opened up, everything
> works just fine.
Thanks.
Is there anything more to moving an IMAP server from NODE1 to NODE2,
other than copying the config files over (and adding users, if need
be)?
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