From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3CDT-0006U1-R6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:31:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7BCRmgh003831; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:27:48 GMT Received: from bigbrother.ncuk.net (bigbrother.ncuk.net [80.249.96.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7BCRl1O003387 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:27:48 GMT Received: from [84.12.112.252] (port=53476 helo=mini.home.pookey.co.uk) by bigbrother.ncuk.net with esmtp (Exim 4.21) id 1E3CAl-0000zu-12; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:28:35 +0100 From: "Ian P. Christian" Organization: Netconnex To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:27:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.90 Cc: "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" References: <1123731973.5878.30.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <200508111256.53604.pookey@pookey.co.uk> <42FB416C.4070904@buanzo.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <42FB416C.4070904@buanzo.com.ar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2247674.RPXzou21jh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508111327.40445.pookey@pookey.co.uk> X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Spam-Report: [-4.9 points, 6.5 required] -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] X-Scan-Signature: cd389620b07f38179a82aecb7099aea2 X-Archives-Salt: 5631eae8-0f45-40e9-9f18-3e273f478add X-Archives-Hash: a7aa3ed8c68f54226c1edf38372d1a73 --nextPart2247674.RPXzou21jh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:15, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > How long since the last time you checked out courier? I only moved away within the last 6 months I think.... still use it on one = of=20 my servers. =20 I know it does keep a cache in the mailbox, but my understanding is it's no= t=20 where near as sophisticated as Cyrus - but I'll accept I could well be wron= g. Also, does courier provide a sieve server? or even support server side=20 filtering of mail? My requirements in my more advanced mail setup wrote of nearly all but Cyru= s=20 IMAP server, so I know more about cyrus. Looking at http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/features.html , there is no ment= ion=20 of ACLs, but there is now shared folders I see. Digging briefly into the do= cs=20 it does support IDLE. Here's a interesting quote though aobut courier and it's Maildir format. "I have 500 MB of archived mail, with several folders with 15,000+ messages= in=20 them. Trying to get this to work on a dual-AthlonMP 2200+ system with 2 GB = of=20 RAM was not a lot of fun using Courier-IMAP and Maildir. It would take=20 upwards of 30 seconds to load a message index, and it could take even longe= r=20 to do operations on multiple messages." =20 "I installed Cyrus-IMAP on this same server, copied my messages over from o= ne=20 setup to the other (using Kontact no less), and haven't had any problems=20 since. Folder indexing and access is in the sub 5 second range on my larges= t=20 folders (just under 20,000 messages to date), and doing operations on=20 multiple messages takes no time at all." from http://dot.kde.org/1106909457/1106958472/ =2D-=20 Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk --nextPart2247674.RPXzou21jh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBC+0Q86jsuvK/fgkoRAuBTAJ0SEVsC9LN/EuvAwqpyC5oqbS+cNACbB6uZ 7MmiwmzajTsNhu3/XtHM5Ng= =VpMv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2247674.RPXzou21jh-- -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list