Yep, I've seen the Life with BincIMAP page... It's what I used to get binc running, and to setup my SSL certificates. Maybe I'll try out courier next weekend though - I've used it for POP3 services before and found it "relatively" easy to setup. Thanks for the feedback.
Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Jolly Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Of things qmail On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:54, Shawn Grover wrote: > Hey all. > > I've been liking how simple qmail is to manage, and decided it was time to take the next step - IMAP and web based email. So, I installed bincimap and got it running with qmail. I next went throught the joys (note the sarcasm) of getting an SSL certificate authority setup and signing a certificate, and configured bincimap to use it. Then I installed Squirrelmail. > > I'm noticing some weird behaviours from both Squirrel and IMAP in general. I have MS Outlook configured to connect to my IMAP server, and migrated all my emails into an IMAP folder. This process takes a very long time - longer than one would expect in transferring simple files, and I'm getting time outs on a regular basis talking to the IMAP server. If I disable SSL and do plain text, things are more stable, but the processing still seems slow. > > When I open Squirell, it's hit and miss whether it'll work. When it does, it looks like I'm close, but then I run into a huge delay opening my inbox (top on the server shows bincimap taking 99% of cpu time during this delay). > > I suspect I probably have multiple issues going on, but there is likely one or two core problems that are causing the others. > > So, I was curious if anyone else has setup qmail with bincimap and Squirrellmail. If so, any tips where I should be looking? If it helps any, this is on a Gentoo server, but I don't think these issues are distro specific. > > Thanks for any input. I can forward logs/conf files if needed. > > Shawn I've not used bincimap with qmail as yet. I use courier-imap on all our mail servers. I have seen others complaining of high cpu usage with bincimap, and the consensus seems to be that binimap requires about 3 times as much cpu usage as courier-imap to complete the same transaction, but completes the transaction faster. Your scenario seems to be using rather excessive amounts of cpu though. I'm not sure if you've seen this page or not, but others on the mail lists I monitor say it's been helpful: http://lifewithbincimap.org/index.php/Main/HomePage neil _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
