Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:13:21 +0100 From: Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large imap server. Message-ID: <20060208201321.GA23773@math.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20060208002642.GA7618@alexis.mi.celestial.com> References: <20060207222202.GA8604@math.jussieu.fr> <20060208002642.GA7618@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: > >Hi all > > > >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). > > I prefer Courier-imap because it uses Maildir storage while Cyrus > uses something similar in that it stores each message in a file, > but Cyrus also maintains index files which can get corrupted. Yes this is I known, but many «voice» tel me the Cyrus imap is for very huge. But I don't known what's mean «very huge»... > > We have several systems running courier-imap with 6000+ mailboxes > on a single server without problems. And how many mail have every mailboxes ? Whith courier-imap when the user check this mail every 1-2 minutes anyone known if the courier-imap daemon check only on Maildir/new or the daemon check also every Maildir/mailbox1/new Maildir/mailbox2/new etc... Lots of thanks. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Wed Feb 8 21:10:06 CET 2006
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