On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 16:45, Cami wrote:
Excellent.. Thanks.. Has anyone done any benchmarking to see how dovecot compares to courier?
I've not, but subjectively speaking, Dovecot is *FAST*.
What I'm mostly working on now should make it even faster :)
Well.. Sounds good.. However, i'd still like to see some benchmarks done.. If i'm planning to let dovecot handle 350 000 mailboxes, i need to make sure everyones benchmark results are pretty similiar.. Any chance you'd get some time to post some benchmarks? (against courier to be specific ;)
That depends on what IMAP clients are used and all kinds of other things. I don't want to waste time doing any benchmarks until after the changes I'm doing now. Anyway for IMAP webmails Dovecot is most likely many times faster than Courier. For "normal" IMAP clients it might not be that much faster, although several people have told that using Dovecot feels much faster than Courier/Cyrus.