On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:29:10 +0100
Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> Ugh. What kind of iron is that, and what version of FreeBSD? What
> impact on performance has the IMAP server? IOW, how long does it
> take to open such a maildir if you access it directly?
The mail is stored in a K6-2/300MHz running Cyrus IMAPD 2.0.17 on NetBSD
1.6. The client is a dual Pentium III running FreeBSD 5.0-RC. Since
Cyrus has its own way of storing mail, there's no such thing a direct
access.
> It takes my computer a few seconds to open my biggest mailboxes
> (~16,000 messages each, 68 and 54 megs, resp.), and I've been
Is that through IMAP or direct? I guess that's direct mbox access.
> thinking about going to Maildir because it lasts too long... Of
> course, I don't access my ~/Mail through an IMAP server...
I once thought about using Maildir too, but when it came time to switch
to IMAP, I tried Cyrus first (my other choice was Courier), and since it
works so well, never looked back.
Cheers,
--
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