On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 7/18/2009, Res (r...@ausics.net) wrote: > > > Oh... and although I did recommend moving to dovecot, if all you use is > > > POP, and there is no chance you will be switching to IMAP, then it I > > > don't think you'd see any benefit switching to dovecot... > > > > Except the performance increase under Dovecot is 30 fold over courier, > > this can mean the difference between additional hardware and not. > > I believe this only applies to IMAP, not POP. Dovecot is first and > foremost an IMAP server. It does a decent job of POP, but I really don't > think it has any huge performance benefit over courier, but I don't even > use POP on server I manage, so have never compared...
Just so I understand, you don't use POP3 on the server you manage; you have never compared POP3 performance on Dovecot vs. $something_else, but you are commenting on the lack of performance benefit? :) See: http://wiki.dovecot.org/POP3Server -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>