OK,Thanks. I'll try cyrus imap.
Now I use Courier-imap as my imap/pop3 server. Jeff Huang 2009-03-22 发件人： vg...@hotmail.com 发送时间： 2009-03-22 10:33:00 收件人： jbhu...@scut.edu.cn; postfix-users 抄送： 主题： Re: How to index maildir -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeff Huang" <jbhu...@scut.edu.cn> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 9:58 PM To: "postfix-users" <postfix-users@postfix.org> Subject: How to index maildir > Hi,my mailserver is postfix and the mailbox is set to /Maildir. > > But I found if there are too many email in maildir,the imap is very slow. > > Can we set the Maildir indexing?So we can accelerate to read/find the > email from Maildir. > that's a job of imap server, not mta (postfix). cyrus does it, dovecot too. dovecot is more flexible - it cat keep those indexes on different partition (ram disk maybe? ). or - you can get a very fast filesystem - in my tests ext3 with default setting won't work with 1000+ messages in one directory - 10-20 clients can make it crawl. that's why we (where I work) still use NetApp filer. cheers vadim > Thank you. > > > > > Jeff Huang > 2009-03-22 >
