[imp] Scalability of IMP

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:14:21AM +0200, Joost De Cock wrote:
> www.kuleuven.ac.be
> webmail.kuleuven.ac.be
> 
> it's a university, so they should have a fair amount of users....
> 
> 
> Joost
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kuhl, Oliver [mailto:okuhl@netcologne.de]
> Sent: donderdag 6 juni 2002 9:09
> To: 'imp@lists.horde.org'
> Subject: [imp] Scalability of IMP
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'working for a local ISP and are looking for a good webmail program to
> serve about 100,000 users. I installed imp and I really like it. But I'm not
> sure if it handles so many users. In my little testinstallation each click
> takes about a second. I'm not sure if it's the imap-operation or the huge
> horde-framework, that takes the time.
> 
> Does anyone have imp running with thousands of users?
> What hardware do I need?
> Are there any special hints for increasing the performance with imp?
> 
> THX in advance for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Oliver Kuhl.

Yes, but it would be nice to have a idea of what their setup is:
  what sort of servers, how many servers, what is the backend (cyrus ?), ...
And what sort of usage they get:
  # mail/day (in Mb & numbers), number of users reading mail, ...

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Alain Williams

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