Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:55:33AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:50:01PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > In summary: If you have big mailboxes, like mailinglists,
> > you will go better with Maildir or IMAP
>
> Mail store format and the remote access method are orthogonal, except in
> the case of Cyrus. UW lets you store IMAP accessible mail in mbox,
And, for the record, Cyrus uses an MH-like store (looks a lot like
Maildir), with indexes for the most needed headers. The indexes work so
well, that a folder that with maildir would take mutt a minute to open
(100k+ messages, xfs), takes about 5s in Cyrus with a proper IMAP
client (Mulbelry. Anyone knows of a DFSG MUA that is actually a real
IMAP client and not some lame-ass kludge on top of a filesystem/pop3
client like mutt or Thunderbird?)
Of course, you better have that Cyrus spool on a serious filesystem,
like XFS or 2.6.11 ext3 with btrees and htrees enabled, or else the
server will dislike heavily users that attempt to place too many
messages in a folder...
Also, for the record, IMHO UW IMAPd is a horrid joke of a imap daemon
that should have already died an horrible death two years ago, or at the
very least it should come with a surgeon's general warning that says "Do
not use this crap if your folders have typically more than 100
messages".
--
Henrique M. Holschuh (still without his witty sig :( )
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