[CentOS] Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
Robin Mordasiewicz
robin at bullseye.tv
Wed Dec 7 14:37:52 UTC 2005
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>
>> You might also want to change Cyrus-imapd to something simpler, like
>> wu-imapd, since it should take less resources from the machine. Then
>> again,
>> I have very little experience with cyrus, since I either use wu or
>> courrier.
>
> Cyrus needs less resources than wu-imapd. Each time you open mailbox,
> wu-imapd needs to read it from beggining to the end from the disk, and
> alocate possibly large chunks of memory as long as you keep connection open.
> Cyrus will simply consult its internal database. Huge difference in speed
> and load on machine. So, the slower/older your hardware is, the more
> inclined you should be to run cyrus.
but it is much easier to add older machines to a pool of imap servers
using courier than cyrus
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