On Fri, 7 May 2004 14:20, Ken Snider <ksnider(a)flarn.com> wrote:
Anyone have any information (anecdotal or otherwise) on the
performance of
cyrus versus UW-IMAPd on really big mailboxes (more than 1 gig/30k
messages)? Or is this exclusively a function of mailbox format?
If you use mbox or mbox+ formats then performance will suck terribly on large
mail boxes. For decent performance you need either Maildir or a database,
although I suspect that most mail servers will have some performance issues
with such a large mailbox regardless of format.
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