On Friday, January 11 at 01:21 PM, quoth Hannes Erven:
Before switching to dovecot, courier-imap handled the backend and I used Squirrelmail as the front-end.
We used to use BincIMAP and Squirrelmail.
imapproxy had a huge (positive) impact on performance, especially when browsing through folders with many messages. Startup (building the maildir tree with message counts) still took its time, and searching in Squirrelmail also was a pain.
We had the same experience.
Thanks to Dovecot, startup and search (in from/to, subject) now is really fast and I turned off imapproxy completely as it did not further improve the webmail's performance. I guess in environments where authentication is expensive (slow) imapproxy sure is worth a look at.
We did the same, for the same reasons. Dovecot offered an order of magnitude increase (subjective) in responsiveness, and I couldn't tell the difference between using imapproxy and not using imapproxy---we removed it just to reduce the complexity of the system.
~Kyle
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