[horde] Horde problem with large mailboxes

Steve Devine sd at msu.edu
Fri May 29 18:48:36 UTC 2009


Quoting "Kevin Konowalec" <webadmin at ualberta.ca>:

> We have IMAP inboxes with over 10000+ messages in them that load in  
> 20 or 30 seconds.  We use Cyrus on the maildrop end but we also use  
> an IMAP proxy to speed things up.  Also be sure you turn off the  
> attachment checking

I'm curious what you are referring to here.
/sd

  and whatnot as it has to crack open the envelope
> of each message to check for that information which adds enormous  
> overhead.  Also we found that our performance went through the roof  
> when eaccelerator was installed properly.  I'm sure you've done that  
> but those are the few things we noticed.
>
> K
>
>
> On May 29, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Vilius Šumskas wrote:
>
>> 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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