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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.