[WBEL-users] Replacement for imapd?

[Pete Biggs]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:21 -0700, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> I'm using sendmail/Imapd as configured by default so that email resides on the 
> server and is backed up. 
> 
> However, we're heavy email users, and parsing a 100 MB mail spool file is 
> starting to whale the tar out of our itty bitty mail server. 
> 


I had the same issue here - moved over to Dovecot and everything calmed
down.  The problem is that the standard IMAP server reads the whole mail
box into memory no matter what it does, dovecot maintains a message
index which means that it only reads the part of the mailbox that it
needs.  Things would be better if you could use maildir format -
unfortunately, for legacy reasons, I can't.

P.

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