On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Paul Vixie wrote: > > i recently explored webmail for my family and found "prayer", which is a > pure C application (no php, no perl) built on the uw-imap c-client library. > it's blindingly fast even for thousands of huge mailboxes stored in MH > format. anyone who was using "the cloud" because they couldn't stand the > poor performance of the apache-based webmail systems should take a look.
We have about 41,000 registered users of which about 25,000 log in to webmail in a busy week (about 850,000 logins per week, 6 or 7 million HTTP requests per day). We run Prayer on a single PC with 8GB RAM and one dual code 2GHz Xeon CPU. Mailboxes live on separate Cyrus IMAP servers. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.
