[horde] Horde problem with large mailboxes

[Steve Devine]

Quoting "Vilius Šumskas" <vilius at lnk.lt>:

> Sveiki,
>
> Friday, May 29, 2009, 6:22:42 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>> Horde problem with large mailboxes
>
>> Dear sirs,
>
>> We have installed horde-webmail 1.0.1 on a CentOS 4.7 server with
>> Apache 2.2.11 PHP 5.2.9 MySQL 4.1.22 Qmail 1.03 Courier-Imap 4.1.2.
>
>> We have 4500 email accounts using webmail but we have problems with
>> accounts that have too many emails as it takes more than 2 minutes  
>> to load the emails.
>
> Does  it  take  2 minutes to load emails on ordinary email client, for
> example Outlook Express?
>
> How many emails do these accounts have exactly?
>
> Note  that Curier-IMAP is pretty bad when it comes to performance with
> large mailboxes because if is just a wrapper around Maildir.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Vilius
>
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We see a fair delay when loading a mailbox with over 1500 to 2000 messages.
Some of this is dependent on your storage. What are you using for storage?
Local disk or networked? Scsi, IDE, Seta?

Steve Devine
Email & Storage
Academic Technology Services
Michigan State University

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