Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > Hi everyone, I'd like to get an idea of the status of DBMail on > openBSD. If anyone has had some experience with DBMail on obsd please > let me know what you think about it. Is it stable? How is the speed? > How's the initial setup? > > I know I there's a dbmail mailing list...but I wanted a non-partisan > opinion. > > Thanks, > > Jean-Daniel > > > P.S. Anyone has an approx ETA until we can pre-order 3.8 cds? >
I've never used DBMail on OpenBSD but I experimented with it a fair deal on FreeBSD 5.x a few months back when I was playing around with different imap implementations. While I liked the idea of using mysql backend for storing mail I found that the read/write performance was very poor when faced with larger imap folders (>5000 messages). I eventually abandoned it for cyrus-imapd which handles folders >20000 messages without a stutter. If high-performance is a priority for you, I'd recommend you look elsewhere. But, as always, YMMV. G
