actually.. there's only me that uses imap on the server.. but thats not the point.. I want to move over 15,000 (over 200mb) msgs to it so don't want to screw it up...
thanks for the info.. will look at courier...
Cheers
Craig
Juri Haberland wrote:
Craig Tinson wrote:
ok.. will look into the version that is running (I didn't realise didn't imap servers varied so radically) .. and upgrade to courier if I need to...
which comes to another question... is courier (then) the current standard (ie *best*) ?
It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which is quite hard to istall and to configure. In most cases Courier is enough and scales well (I know someone running ~8000 Users with Courier). Cyrus stores it's mails in a cryptic database format whereas Courier uses an enhanced version of Qmail's Maildir concept. UW-IMAP (the one you're currently using) stores it's mail in a plain mbox file. It is slow, doesn't scale and eats lot of memory if you have mailboxes > 50 MB (actually it seems to load it completely into memory). So having 10 users each with a mailbox size of 100MB (quite common) means you need 1000MB RAM - or a lot of SWAP space...
Cheers, Juri
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