[Dovecot] Benchmarking

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.1.2007, at 23.43, Charles Marcus wrote:

>> Dovecot could have lied to the client that "OK, your saved message is
>> safe" while in reality it isn't. So it'll default to no, but if you
>> don't care about such problems that much you can enable  it..
>
> Sounds like you meant the server/dovecot, since if the Client  
> crashed *before* the operation was complete,. it could not have  
> gotten an "OK, your saved message is safe".

Yep.

>> I think most people think maildir is faster only because all other  
>> mbox readers are so horribly slow.
>
> By reader, I'm assuming you mean server? Or do you actually mean  
> that the mail Client can have such a huge impact on the speed when  
> talking to an IMAP server that uses mbox on the backend?

I mean anything that accesses mboxes directly: UW-IMAP, mutt, pine,  
and so on. IMAP client doesn't have anything to do with it.


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