Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.3.2012, at 16.14, Mark Alan wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:07:24 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On 16.3.2012, at 13.07, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: > >> pop3_no_flag_changes=yes > > Is it the same as pop3_no_flag_updates=yes ? Yeah. I wrote it from my memory.

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-17 Thread Mark Alan
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:07:24 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 16.3.2012, at 13.07, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: > pop3_no_flag_changes=yes Is it the same as pop3_no_flag_updates=yes ? M.

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Kelsey Cummings
On 03/16/12 10:54, Timo Sirainen wrote: Another thing our existing POP3 servers did was batch all of the deletes until after the +OK... was returned from quit. This doesn't reduce server load but has the impression of creating faster response times to the clients. You mean deleting the messa

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.3.2012, at 19.49, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > On 03/16/12 06:07, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Maildir isn't very good for POP3, especially if the POP3 clients delete the >> mails after download. With Dovecot you could look into switching to >> multi-dbox format, which would have much better perfor

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Kelsey Cummings
On 03/16/12 06:07, Timo Sirainen wrote: Maildir isn't very good for POP3, especially if the POP3 clients delete the mails after download. With Dovecot you could look into switching to multi-dbox format, which would have much better performance. Timo, can you explain why Maildir isn't a good f

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.3.2012, at 13.07, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: >We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand of > email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email > configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration throught > mbox email software

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Steve Campbell
On 3/16/2012 7:07 AM, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: Hi, We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand of email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration throught mbox email software

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
One quick fix to try, if it's the login-time that's killing you, is to enable auth caching: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching that should offload your backend LDAP-servers from doing bind() on ever login, had a huge login performance impact for us. We use "auth_cache_size =

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 16.03.2012 12:07, schrieb Mauricio López Riffo: > Hi, > > We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand > of email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email > configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration > throught mbox email sof

[Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Mauricio López Riffo
Hi, We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand of email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration throught mbox email software to Maildir with dovecot) but i can see that the perf

[Dovecot] dovecot pop3 performance, what size installation

2008-11-13 Thread Brandon Lamb
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could tell me their results and maybe help me get an idea how big our mail system installation and usage is. For dovecot pop3 and nfs backend, I am curious how many machines I should expect to need. Here are my stats for what I can tell. 5-7 connections per secon