Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:02:19 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: shih@math.jussieu.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large imap server. Message-ID: <43E9B39B.2070507@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060207222202.GA8604@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060207222202.GA8604@math.jussieu.fr>
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Albert Shih wrote: > I search some advice for large imap server. > > For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every > users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. > > What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap ? (please this > is not a troll). > > Any documentation ? AFAIK cyrus-imap uses a database backend to store mail and has been designed to scale to enterprise systems. The database backend makes indexing and mail lookup faster, but I don't think there's any difference when it comes to retrieving the actual mail. Just don't use anything based on mbox file. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9
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