Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:59:00 +1000 From: Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org> To: jan gestre <freebsd.ph@gmail.com> Cc: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail system Suggestions Message-ID: <44C31024.6070002@webanoide.org> In-Reply-To: <a25afc300607221305o826052erf445fd177a55795c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060722054711.9B5B.GERARD@seibercom.net> <005601c6ad8c$81193f60$0200a8c0@satellite> <a25afc300607221305o826052erf445fd177a55795c@mail.gmail.com>
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jan gestre wrote: > On 7/22/06, Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I would recommend dovecot. It's capable of both imap as well as pop if >> you later want to add that and can do encrypted versions of those >> protocols >> as well. Dovecot is also in my opinion much easier to configure and less >> resource intensive than other imap servers. >> If i can be of any assistance let me know. >> Thanks. >> Dave. > > > > i second it, dovecot works great, try it. I'm not into starting a flaming session, but dovecot's indexing/caching capabilities are the only things that make it fast. Am I right? Well, it is also written in C. I came across a few posts[1][2], though they're old, saying that everything depends on e-mail clients as well. I'm responsible for 2 courier-imap in production and about to start working on a new one. This and previous threads regarding dovecot caught my attention and it sounds interesting. However, what good is there having indexes on IMAP server and on local machine? I realised that my Thunderbird keeps record of all my folders and their contents. So roughly I've got ~800MB of e-mails on IMAP and 12MB of indexes in Thunderbird's profile. Also, apparently Outlook 2003 caches absolutely everything. I've seen accounts with 2.9GB worth of e-mails on IMAP and generated outlook.pst as big as 950MB. Maybe dovecot's indexing features would be great in webmail environments? Maybe I just got lost somewhere. Any input would be highly appreciated. Cheers, Mikhail. [1] - http://www.mail-archive.com/courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg19821.html [2] - http://www.mail-archive.com/courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg19834.html -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B
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