[Dovecot] Converting to Dovecot

[Marc Perkel]

Daniel Watts wrote:
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> Could you guys discuss the differences in your setup?
> Obviously the question here is why does Cor use 20 servers for 500,000 
> users when Grant needs 3 servers (same cpu, LESS ram) for 350,000 users?
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> One thing I noticed is that Grant has an average of 1.7MB usage per 
> user indicating a lot of  inactive users amoung the 350,000. 50,000 
> active?
> Cor has around 200,000 active/regular users.
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> In anycase - both of you beat the hell out of my UW IMAP server:
> Dual 3.0 GHz Xeon
> 4GB Ram
> SCSI 10,000rpm RAID 5 ( 3 x 144GB)
> 3000 active users, 5000 squirrelmail webmail sessions per day
> Quotas ranging from 50MB to 1000MB.
> About 100GB of mail stored total.
> Load up to 10 sometimes! Reading in those big MBOX files is hard work.
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> This is why I'm investigating moving to Dovecot =)
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> Can I suggest we create a wiki page for these? It would be GREAT to 
> have an archive of registered working production setups. This way 
> Dovecot admins can browse for a similar system and perhaps contact 
> someone who has a similar setup and can help them.
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> I've created a page at:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/DovecotServerInstallations
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> Accessible from the Odds and Ends section of the front page.
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> I've put up a sample server config (actually borrowed from Dennis but 
> with all personal details removed for privacy!).
> If you guys fancy copying your individual server details to that page 
> we could build up a really nice list of working installations.
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> Best wishes,
> Daniel
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For what it's worth when I switched from UW-IMAP to Dovecot it was like 
I died and went to heaven. It was as big of a relief as going from 
Sendmail to Exim.