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On Thursday 11 August 2005 14:50, A. Khattri wrote: |
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> Our main mail server is a dual-Athlon (1.6GHz) SMP box, 1Gb RAM and we |
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> serve somewhere between 3000 to 4000 accounts with Courier. Some of users |
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> have hundreds of Mb (a few are > 1Gb of mail). |
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It's not to do with mail size, it's to do with number of messages in any one |
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mailbox. The file system underlying it will also effect this. |
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One of my mailboxes currently has 10,000 emails in, and it's still not showing |
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any signs of becoming any slower. |
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I imagine people's milage might vary with this kinda thing, but that post |
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suggested all he changed was the mail server, not the file system, or |
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anything else. (I presume he didn't - he installed them side by side) |
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Also, if you're interested, this is quite interesting |
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http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html |
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"The Cyrus IMAP Aggregator transparently distributes IMAP and POP mailboxes |
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across multiple servers. Unlike other systems for load balancing IMAP |
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mailboxes, the aggregator allows users to access mailboxes on any of the IMAP |
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servers in the system. " |
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"The software described below is now available as part of the Cyrus IMAP |
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distribution, versions 2.1.3 and higher. Please refer to the documentation |
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with the source for setup and install instructions." |
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Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk |
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