[ucc] IMAP server question

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 09:13, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:04:59AM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 August 2006 23:03, Paul Marinceu wrote:
> > > Wondering people's opinions on various IMAP4 servers available out
> > > there. Anyone hooked one up to AD for user auth (no Exchange server)?
> > > What was your particular approach?

> > > I guess the main ones being Cyrus, Courier and to some extent
> > > Dovecot. Cyrus seems to be quite high performance and provides for
> > > massive scalability...

> > Cyrus works well but performance depends on the filesystem. Works
> > bloody good if it's in Reiserfs. That's because it keeps each
> > message in its own file. "Crash recovery" and ad-hoc "repairs" are
> > quite simple.

[snip]

> > Dovecot can have scalability problems when users insist of keeping
> > gigabytes in their mailboxes. Which poses a problem because Dovecot
> > keeps it all in the one file; being "afraid" to use inodes.

> As much as Maildir is an abuse of the filesystem, dovecot supports
> maildir just fine if you tell it to use it.

My bad. I've only ever seen it with blobs.

Reiserfs doesn't see Maildir as an abuse, btw. Reiserfs sings

	Give me files, lots of files
	As far as heads can seek
	I'll in-dex and hash
	To retrieve your files real quick
	Never mind 'bout their size
	I'll store them small and big
	Give me files, lots of files

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