[imp] Performace Tips

[Angelo Ayres Camargo]

Hey Darius, 

So my problem is not IMP geting slow to read the mensages is my MTA, i just 
read the Benchmarking mbox versus maildir and i say God bye sendmail and mbox. 

Tks all for the Help 

Citando Darius Matuliauskas <darius@lnk.lt>:

> Hi there,
> 
> I guess the main reason of a slowdown could be storing all of your mail in 
> mailbox format. If you use UW-IMAP as your IMAP server your mails are stored
> in 
> Unix mailboxes, that is all of the messages in a single file. That means it 
> takes quite a while for an IMAP server to move or delete a part of a big
> file. 
> Consider qmail with maildir support or postfix as your MTA and cyrus or
> courier 
> as IMAP server. 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Darius
> 
> > I have a Mailserver(Athlon 800, 128 Ram) with only 3 mailbox, and i get
> about
> > 
> > 500 mail,  with 1 to 15 MB, after 200 mails imp gets very slow, i'm
> looking
> > for 
> > some performace tips. 
> 
> 


Ângelo Ayres Camargo
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