[Dovecot] some questions on AOX or rather a mail system setup

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Thu Oct 11 15:56:34 EEST 2012


Am 11.10.2012 04:10, schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> 3) Is AOX suitable for the local server?
> - I couldn't use maildir locally, because I loose just to much space to
> the block fragmentation. But I guess I won't have this problem with the DB backend.
> 
> 
> a) Is AOX able to manage a really big folder hierarchy that basically
> ever keeps growing... with easily several 100k
> mails per folder... and that is in total already over 100GB?
> 
> I read that e.g. dovecot would have more performance problems with that.
> 
> 
> b) I would prefer to have fast full text search. Does AOX provide
> this?
> 
> I read that IMAP has limitations which make full text search not really usable via it?
> 
> 
> Further, I remember some dovecot wiki page that showed a comparison which said
> that both do not perfectly implement imap.

Christoph, sorry, what exact is AOX, and what is its relation to the
dovecot list....

youre looking to an overall mail setup
so split your questions up to software you wanna use and ask the related
mail list, perhaps hire some mail consultant advice you

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Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer



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