Thanks for your reply Jason. I will look into it, although from your description it may be a bit beyond me. I wonder if Linux will ever be ready for the masses? It is still way too technical for the average user.
However, I'll have a go. ;-) Cheers, Brad On Monday 28 July 2003 14:53, you wrote: > > I have a Red Hat 9 mail server running UW imap and I find that mail > > retrieval from both Windows and Linux email clients is very slow, even to > > the extent that the email client sometimes times out waiting for the imap > > server to respond. > > I regularly open 20,000+ message mailboxes with pine against cyrus. This > generally takes <2 seconds to open for me. "Normal" size mailboxes don't > take any perceivable time at all to open. Your mileage may vary with > windows clients, as they typically want to download all the headers - > however, they won't be stalled on the server end scanning > /var/mail/lusername. > > > I have heard that the Cyrus imap server is somewhat faster and was > > wondering if replacing the UW imap server with the Cyrus server would > > solve my problem. > > It might. The road there is long though. If you are a do-it-yourselfer > who doesnt' mind getting dirty, reading *docs*, etc, you'll find that > cyrus is way way worth setting up from a performance and security point of > view. I won't say setting up cyrus was easy for me though. Persistance, > use of docs, use of the web search features of your favorite search > engine, etc all pay off big dividends.