[Dovecot] Running dovecot on embedded device?

[Jef Driesen]

On 20/02/11 06:05, Curtis Maloney wrote:
> On 20/02/11 09:22, Jef Driesen wrote:
>> I'm considering buying a QNAP TS-212 NAS and I wonder if this device is
>> powerful enough to run dovecot too (there is a pre-built dovecot package
>> available from QNAP)? The main goal would be that my mail is stored
>> centralized on the NAS, where I can access it from multiple systems
>> without ending up with mail scattered over each system (which is exactly
>> what is happening now due to the fact that my isp offers only POP3).
>> There will only be a few users (e.g. family members), and incomming mail
>> will be fetched from the isp mailbox.
>>
>> The specs of the QNAP TS-212 are:
>>
>> * ARM Marvell Kirkwood 1.2GHz CPU
>> * 256MB DDRII RAM
>
> Heh... your idea of an "embedded" device clearly differs from mine.

The QNAP may be more powerful than some "real" embedded devices, but compared to 
a "real" mailserver I think it's still a very small device :-)

> I'm currently running Dovecot on a 450MHz UltraSPARC-IIi for a company
> of about 25 people.
>
> The QNAP (nice toys, aren't they?) has plenty of CPU, and I don't see it
> running out of RAM, either.
>
>> Is this sufficient to run dovecot, and will the performance be
>> acceptable? I'm not expecting something lightning fast, but something
>> that is acceptable.
>
> I think it should do fine.

Thanks for your feedback!