On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:31 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:37, Craig White wrote:
not all that problematic but I appreciate the tendency to not change things that are working. It's just so much faster - even on my 1 user setup at home and incredibly so much faster in multi-client environments.
But you are comparing the speed of uw-imap with mbox format against cyrus and the mbox format is the problem. Procmail knows how to deliver in maildir format and dovecot can access it with some opportunistic indexing to get a big speedup without having to change as much from the users' or administrator's perspectives.
--- absolutely - apparently uw-imap is capable of using maildir too, but I never knew that until I had switched over to cyrus-imapd.
you can use dovecot - I definitely like cyrus-imapd, love sieve, mail quotas, shared folders, autocreate folders/shared folders, autocreate sievescripts, multiple backend stores, etc. Speed is only one of the reasons. As I said, the long view of living with a mail daemon makes things like initial setup and conversion pretty much meaningless.
Craig