17 Mar
2007
17 Mar
'07
10:36 p.m.
Quoting Maykel Moya moya@infomed.sld.cu:
comparison. I switched from UW-Imap/Mbox to Dovecot/Maildir a box with 45k local users, 3.5MB/s sustained IMAP/POP traffic in work hours. The main performance gain is from mbox -> maildir switching. Anyway the
Don't be so sure it was from the mbox -> maildir switching. I went from UW-Imap mbox to Dovecot mbox, and the speed up was enormous.
users (and myself) "perceive" a good performance with the new setup.
Yes, all my users perceive it as lightening fast, as do I. How much of a difference depends to some extent on how large your mbox file is...
Regards, maykel
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