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