Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:14:17 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?= <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz> Cc: Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <85B743CA-EDF5-49F9-97DE-827DAE41DA8E@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <45F92E2C.1080406@sh.cvut.cz> References: <20070313105155.GA16020@wiz> <45F92E2C.1080406@sh.cvut.cz>
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On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:29 AM, V=E1clav Haisman wrote: > I advise you against using IMAP UW, unless you know your mailboxes =20 > won't > grow beyond just few megabytes or that there will be only few of them. > Their reading and rewriting of whenever you make changes can stress > server quite a lot. This is only true if you use one of the deprecated mailbox formats =20 such as mbox (unix). However, if you use the recommended mailbox =20 format, mbx, you will have no problems with large mailboxes. See http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/formats.txt.html I have little problem with mbx files containing tens of thousands of =20 messages. -j --=20 Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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