[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

[Rajesh M]

hi all

i use qmail toaster. i recently changed over to dovecot.

posting below my evaluation on the same

my machine
dual core dual xeon 5140 processor, with 4 gb ram, centos linux with
qmailtoaster

i had setup a qmail tap account which backups up data for a client of mine

mailbox size over 30 gb

setup dovecot with squirrelmail and logged in

it had over one hundred and thirty nine thousand emails

139019 emails in the 30 gb mailbox

Reports

1) first login : took 7 minutes to parse 139019 mails but never timed out.
this was simply impossible with courier

2) the next login it took 5 seconds by which time the mail numbers
increased to 139045

3) next i changed squirrelmail display preference to list 500 mails per page
and then clicked on inbox ... expecting dovecot to take atleast around 1-2
mins to show the mails

... the mails were displayed in just 8 seconds .. awesome performance

qmailtoaster is simply waiting for a dovecot integration

i am evaluating the stability of dovecot now

in the next 2-3 weeks i post stability report

rajesh