[imp] Benchmarking / Machine requirements

Brent J. Nordquist bjn@horde.org
Fri, 9 Feb 2001 21:18:41 -0600 (CST)


Thanks, everyone, for the comments; some really useful data here.

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Crowley <ccrowley@tulane.edu> wrote:

> Showstopper for my implementation of courier is that it doesn't support
> /usr/spool/mail mailboxes:

Have you ruled out Maildir for some reason?  Traditional mbox format is
part of the performance problem too... most modification actions require a
complete rewriting of the file.  We're going to switch from UW-IMAP/mbox
to Courier IMAP/Maildir this coming summer.

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