Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

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Date: 06/10/05

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To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net>, debian-user@lists.debian.org

    On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:55:33AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
    > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:50:01PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
    > > In summary: If you have big mailboxes, like mailinglists,
    > > you will go better with Maildir or IMAP
    >
    > Mail store format and the remote access method are orthogonal, except in
    > the case of Cyrus. UW lets you store IMAP accessible mail in mbox,

    And, for the record, Cyrus uses an MH-like store (looks a lot like
    Maildir), with indexes for the most needed headers. The indexes work so
    well, that a folder that with maildir would take mutt a minute to open
    (100k+ messages, xfs), takes about 5s in Cyrus with a proper IMAP
    client (Mulbelry. Anyone knows of a DFSG MUA that is actually a real
    IMAP client and not some lame-ass kludge on top of a filesystem/pop3
    client like mutt or Thunderbird?)

    Of course, you better have that Cyrus spool on a serious filesystem,
    like XFS or 2.6.11 ext3 with btrees and htrees enabled, or else the
    server will dislike heavily users that attempt to place too many
    messages in a folder...

    Also, for the record, IMHO UW IMAPd is a horrid joke of a imap daemon
    that should have already died an horrible death two years ago, or at the
    very least it should come with a surgeon's general warning that says "Do
    not use this crap if your folders have typically more than 100
    messages". 

    -- 
  Henrique M. Holschuh (still without his witty sig :( )
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