Chris Mason wrote:
> We have performance issues with Squirrelmail and imap in general due to
> users with large amounts of mail. We have one user, the president of the
> company, who insists on keeping every mail he ever sent anyone or received,
> and routinely sends 8 MB emails. His mail is topping 4 GB sorted into
> various folders, and he is bringing our 2 X 2.4 GHz Xeon server to a halt.
> His email account has become a file system, as he travels extensively and
> wants access to these files while on the road using Squirrelmail. As he is
> the president I can’t tell him to clean up his act. My biggest fear is he
> will insist on a move to Exchange and that it would be faster as I have
> always advocated Linux servers.

sounds to me like squirrelmail is the wrong client.

I use mozilla mailnews to read my 14k+ mail folders and it's lightning fast.

let's face it, squirrelmail sucks at handling large folders.

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