> Adam wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:39:24 +0200 Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> Does it even work on openbsd yet? Its got a long history of corrupting >>>> indexes, and spinning out of control sucking up 100% of the CPU. > > I first read this out-of-order... "sounds like they are talking about > Dovecot" was my first thought...
> Want a seemingly reliable demo? Try this: > Set it up on a machine to do IMAP/SSL. Push 2000 e-mail messages from a > local mail client to your IMAP server. Somewhere between message 3 and > 1000, it will hang, then time out on you. Switch to non-SSL, it will > work fine. Switch back, hang-time-out. Exact same results on Outlook > Express and Thunderbird, on multiple workstations, and multiple servers. > BTW: if you are trying to convert from local e-mail to centralized > IMAP storage, that hang-and-timeout SUCKS BIG-TIME...you will either end > up with duplicates in the IMAP server or spend hours trying to figure > out which ones made it and which ones didn't. I've just tried with beta8 and you're right. Exactly the same happens to me when using SSL... thanks for pointing that out. > Yes, Courier IMAP is more complex. However, it took far less time to > get going than I spent fighting with the Dovecot SSL problem. I really > wish I hadn't believed all the "Courier is too complex" stuff before. > It isn't that bad, and not only have I had no issues so far, some of the > things I wasn't really blaming Dovecot for got a lot easier, too. Guess I'll have a look at Courier or Cyrus now ;) -- Stephan A. Rickauer ----------------------------------------------------------- Institut f|r Neuroinformatik Tel: +41 44 635 30 50 Universitdt / ETH Z|rich Sek: +41 44 635 30 52 Winterthurerstrasse 190 Fax: +41 44 635 30 53 CH-8057 Z|rich Web: www.ini.ethz.ch RSA public key: https://www.ini.ethz.ch/~stephan/pubkey.asc ----------------------------------------------------------- [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
