On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 04:39, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 02:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:19, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > > maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access > > > > > messages as individual files, and more robust. Plus 'From' doesn't need > > > > > to be escaped at start of line. > > > > > > > > Why better performance? If there's lots of messages, directory > > > > manipulation becomes very slow (at least on IDE drive). > > > > > > Directory insertion/deletion (Maildir) vs. file insertion/deletion > > > (mbox). > > > > > > Mailder is far more robust (djb gets _some_ things right). And deals > > > with simultaneous access and multiple updates (say, d-u, where I > > > typically get new mail every few minutes) far better than mbox. > > > > > > I try to keep my mailboxes <1k messages, though with Maildir I've had > > > 20k+ messages with few problems. > > > > While we're on the topic: > > > > I'm thinking of building an IMAP server out of a Via EPIA 5000 mobo > > (533MHz Eden CPU http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=2#p2), > > 512MB RAM & 40GB HDD. > > > > Will this have the "oomph" to open large mail directories, etc, > > in a timely fashion? Only 2 people will be using it, but I get > > ~3600 spams per day. > > My IMAP (Courier) server is an Athlon 650 with 128 MB of RAM, and an old > (probably ATA 66, or maybe even 33) 8 GB hard drive. With it, opening up > my debian-user folder which generally gets up to about 2k messages > before I start archiving, takes about 3 seconds in Evolution. In mutt, > since AFAIK mutt doesn't cache the folders at all, it can take 10 - 15 > seconds to open up at times. But once it's all opened up, everything > works just fine.
Thanks. Is there anything more to moving an IMAP server from NODE1 to NODE2, other than copying the config files over (and adding users, if need be)? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Note to LSU and Valdosta State students: India is not an Arab country! http://www.talonnews.com/news/2003/october/1009_college_dems_jind al.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]