On Sep 24, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > The problem I have is performance. Sine we get not many but large > mails (around 3 megabyte each), a single file mailbox seems not to be > a good idea. > > I managed to setup procmail to deliver to mail directories (the ones > with cur/ new/ and tmp/) but the imapd does not support this mailbox > format. > > Is there a way to configure imapd so that it does support this format > or can anyone name me an alternate imapd?
Try CMU's cyrus; there's no debian package yet, but it's a superb server, and actually the basis for many excellent commercial servers. It stores mail messages in individual files, but not in a mailreader-supported format, so it won't allow you to keep a normal mail spool; clients must use POP or IMAP. See http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/index.html, which is unfortunately very out of date. Use the latest version (1.6.13), not the one listed on the page. Available at ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail.
