On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 09:12, Russell Coker wrote:
On Fri, 7 May 2004 14:20, Ken Snider ksnider@flarn.com wrote:
Anyone have any information (anecdotal or otherwise) on the performance of cyrus versus UW-IMAPd on really big mailboxes (more than 1 gig/30k messages)? Or is this exclusively a function of mailbox format?
If you use mbox or mbox+ formats then performance will suck terribly on large mail boxes. For decent performance you need either Maildir or a database, although I suspect that most mail servers will have some performance issues with such a large mailbox regardless of format.
Anyone know if it reads the mbx format? UW-IMAPD docs said the was a fast mailbox format that allows concurrent access. We use it.