[imp] Re: imp with courrier imap is too slow

[Rick Romero]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:44, Daniel Eckl wrote:
> I made my webmail for a very small user group which all had local unix 
> accounts.
> At the beginning I used small IMAP servers like imapd and dovecot and so on,
> then I tried courier, which was a little bit better.
> 
> Using an imapproxy like that from horde project helped a little bit, but not
> much.
>
> And then I was bored and tried cyrus and *boom* performance was 
> multiplied by 5
> to 10 times.
> 
> So that's my suggestion to you. If you want to have professional speed 
> you have
> to use professional software and you have to swallow the bitter pill and learn
> to install, configure and administrate the new complicated daemon. It's hard
> work, but it's worth the cost.

That's odd.  www.vfemail.net is a PIII-800 accessing courier on a
P4-2800.  The only time I noticed a slowness was when I first added the
P4, and courier was on the PIII-800 accessing the data on the P4 over
NFS.  The PIII only has a 10MB NIC.

This is on FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.2.1 respectively.

IMHO, the biggest performance boost comes from mod_gzip.
<shrug>

Rick

> 
> Greets,
> Daniel
> 
> Zitat von Tony Lay <tonylay at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE and horde RC2
> > Everything for the most part is good
> >
> > Performance is slower in the inbox, don't know exact stats...I have a
> > feeling it's just a setting somewhere but I had to get the
> > functionality going so I disregarded performance.  At this point I'm
> > moving on to the usability.  I have spent three days on it but it's
> > all good...That c-client setup on FreeBSD is a real treat if any of
> > you haven't had to do it :-)
> >
> > I'd like to post how the heck I got that going but my notes are at the
> > office and I don't know where the best location would be to do that
> > besides here.
> >
> > BTW…I'm on here through google groups and I'm going to be tweaking
> > probably through Christmas break if anybody has questions.  I'm slower
> > with customers than usual (IT + consultant) so I actually have the
> > time to work on this right now.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -TLAY
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