On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On 2.7.2012, at 19.12, Kaya Saman wrote:
what's really weird is that if I keep increasing the Cache TTL and Cache size, the speed of transfer starts dropping.
I think it may just be a coincidence that changing cache values appears to help, and the real reason maybe being just that Dovecot got restarted. Because if Outlook is using NTLM + winbind for authentication, the auth cache isn't used at all.
Thanks Giles and Timo :-)
So if I look at a different authentication mechanism say LDAP would it improve performance?
There is currently a local AD in the network which I think piggy-backs off the parent companies AD for mail.
If this is guarunteed to improve performance I don't mind taking the time to learn LDAP integration; though I must say it took me quite a while, several months in fact to learn NTLM and get it working - with very little or no help from anyone on any associated list :-( .
Regards,
Kaya