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This is not so much a problem as an 'I wonder'... |
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I currently use dovecot imap with maildir to support several dozen |
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folders containing several gigabytes of mail using Thunderbird as a mail |
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client. This "works" - but I am surprised by the number of imap |
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processes that the mail server is running to support a single |
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Thunderbird client... it appears that there is one connection per folder |
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and one process per connection... which seems (to me at least) to be |
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overkill. |
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I'm aware that there are lots of IMAP clients I might have chosen - |
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Courier; UWImap, Cyrus and dovecot... but I'm finding it difficult to |
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establish details which would help me choose the most appropriate server |
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for my purposes. In order of importance, I'm interested in: |
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1. Stability and reliability. |
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2. Scalability to handle a very large number of 'folders' for a |
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relatively small number of end-users. |
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3. Performance (primarily with respect to 'new mail' |
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notifications, but also, to a lesser extent, with searching archived |
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messages. |
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I'd be interested to hear any anecdotes from Gentooists who have |
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addressed a similar question recently... |
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Steve |
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