[Dovecot] [OT] Webmail Recommendation

[Kyle Wheeler]

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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