On 13.2.2010, at 0.41, Victor Duchovni wrote: > No, this is largely irrelevant. What matters is the IMAP performance > they expect, that IMAP servers are reasonably CPU and memory intensive.
From what I've seen is that IMAP servers normally take less than 1% CPU load (mainly Dovecot, but I'd think others too). Memory is more important, currently maybe 0.5 MB/connection or so for Dovecot. Usually anyway disk IO is the bottleneck.
